SOCIOL 2209 Study Guide - Final Guide: Miranda Warning, Psychological Manipulation, Perjury

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Brown vs. ms (1936) - test used: brown v ms (1936, facts: 2209 exam 2 review: what is interrogation, anytime you are making a statement to facilitate a response, when is the right to counsel to attach. Judicial proceedings initiated: as soon as you are placed under arrest, two murderers, suspects whipped & hanged to get confessions out of them. Issue: due process violation, decision, use of coerced confessions violated the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment, torture no substitute for witness stand, violates fundamental fairness, why not s. i. Spano vs. ny (1959) - test used + problems with coerced confessions. Facts: guy takes his money and uses it to buy drinks, guy is a professional boxer, kicks spano"s ass. Is the interrogation of spano and the use of bruno: argued 6th and 1th, 6th- his right to the lawyer, 14th-was it a coerced confession, decision, problems with coerced confessions, they are untrustworthy.