Was invoking of the miranda rights inconsistent with defense


Assignment task: A warrant is issued for X's arrest. X flees the jurisdiction and later is arrested attempting to cross the border into Canada. Three hours later X is read X's Miranda rights and invokes X's right to counsel. U, an undercover police informant, is placed in X's cell and persuades X to confess to a robbery committed five months before the murder. X claims that U should have read X the Miranda rights. Was U required to read the Miranda rights? X later takes the stand at trial in X's own defense at trial and offers an alibi defense. The prosecutor asks X on cross-examination "why, if you are innocent of the murder, did you not volunteer this information to the police immediately at the time of your arrest after you were read the Miranda rights?" Why did you invoke your right to a lawyer? Was your invoking of the Miranda rights inconsistent with your alibi defense? May the prosecutor ask X this series of questions.

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