Assignment:
- Explain law enforcement procedures beginning with initial contact with a suspect through an arrest.
- Explain the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
- Discuss the origin and application of Miranda warnings.
Question 1. Describe the voluntariness test of self-incrimination.
Question 2. Identify 5 circumstances that determine custody.
Question 3. What two circumstances must exist before Miranda rights are required to be read by officers?
Question 4. Identify 3 types of detentions that are not custodial.
Question 5. Miranda v. Arizona established a bright-line rule regarding warnings to suspects. What is the rule and the reason for the rule?
Question 6. State two arguments in favor of videotaping confessions and one argument against.
References:
Samaha, Joel. (2015). Criminal Procedure, 9th, Ed. Boston, MA: Cengage.