This article originally appeared in Criminal Justice Weekly.
Should a perfectly voluntary confession, given freely by a suspect in custody, be suppressed merely because police have failed to deliver a perfect set of Miranda warnings? The 4th Circuit recently answered this question with an emphatic no, relying on an act of Congress mandating the admission of voluntary confessions. The Supreme Court appears to be poised to affirm that decision, setting our criminal justice system back on a path where the overriding consideration is the search for truth.
December 09, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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