Supreme Court Justices Warn Police on Coercion Tactic

The Supreme Court on Monday warned police away from using a strategy intended to extract confessions from criminal suspects before telling them of their right to remain silent. The court, on a 5-4 vote, said that intentionally questioning a suspect twice -- the first time without reading the Miranda warning -- is usually improper. But the court left open the possibility that some confessions obtained after double interviews would be acceptable, providing police could prove the interrogation wasn't intended to undermine the Miranda warning. [more]