Supreme Court Justices Warn Police on Coercion Tactic
Monday, June 28, 2004 at 11:59PM
TheSpook
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]
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