AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Harmless Error, Custodial Interrogation, Arraignment

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 014
• Professor: ahle

Document Summary

Applying and explaining miranda: part two: 10/17/17 "mastering crim. Held- if police discover physical evidence based on information in a d"s unwarned statement, that evidence is admissible as long as the statement was not procured by "actual coercion" A miranda-defective confession may be used to impeach a d. Harris v new york an unwarned, voluntary statement is admissible during cross exam to impeach the credibility of d"s testimony. Although the fulminate case indicated that the harmless error rule could be applied to involuntary confessions. , upon appeal, pros would have to show brd that the wrongly admitted confession did not contribute to the conviction. F: after defendant"s bedridden son"s death, a mentally ill teenager died during a scheme to conceal defendant"s neglect of the son. Employing a procedure called "question-first" interrogation, police arrested defendant for the death of the teenager but refrained from giving her miranda warnings. Twenty minutes after eliciting a confession, police mirandized defendant and requestioned her.