A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling suppressing a suspect’s confession that he had cocaine in his car, which was coaxed out of him by a loquacious state trooper prior to the reading of Miranda rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the government’s first appellate argument in the prosecution of Gary Bradley—that the physical evidence should not have been suppressed because the statements Bradley made before receiving Miranda warnings were made voluntarily—because prosecutors did not bring it up at trial.