Rhode Island v. Innis

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confessions

  • In confession: Confession in contemporary U.S. law

    …embraced by the court in Rhode Island v. Innis (1980), in which a 6–3 majority held that a contrived conversation between police officers conducted in the presence of a suspect and intended to elicit incriminating statements from him did not constitute an interrogation that would require adherence to Miranda. More…

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