Exam 8: Interrogations and Confessions

If a suspect makes a confession that results from drugs administered from the police that overpower the subject's rational intellect and free will, the confession is said to be _____.

The primary issue addressed by the McNabb-Mallory rule is _____.

In the opinion for Davis v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the statement "maybe I should talk to a lawyer" is a sufficiently clear invocation of the suspect's Miranda rights.

Do you think police officers should be required to read the Miranda warnings? Can you think of any alternatives that would still safeguard against a suspect's constitutional rights? Is it important to protect those rights? Why or why not?

What does it mean to say we operate within an adversarial system instead of an inquisitorial legal system?

Once a suspect initiates contact with the police by asking them unnecessary questions, any invocation of his/her Miranda rights is waved.

The state must show that a suspect _____ waived his/her Miranda rights, meaning that the suspect did not do so due to threats, tricks, or pressure.

The Court stated in Escobedo v. Illinois that allowing a lawyer access to his/her client during interrogation would undoubtedly impede police interrogations and investigations.

A suspect who is interrogated for extended periods of time (about 24-plus hours) has likely been subjected to an incommunicado interrogation.

In what way is the concern of abusive police interrogations dealt with most frequently?

Explain the three types of false confessors and give examples of each.

A declaration in which an individual provides a fact that tends to establish his/her guilt is known as a/an _____.

A suspect who falsely confesses to a crime due to mental impairment is a compliant false confessor.

Which of the following is not required for officers to invoke the public safety exception to Miranda?

The U.S. operates under a/an _____ system of criminal procedure, in which the prosecutor must establish guilt and the defendant cannot be compelled to testify against him/herself.

Once an officer has read a defendant his/her rights, the officer may assume the defendant understands these rights.

What are the four interrelated purposes of the voluntariness test?

What is required in court in order to establish a waiver of Miranda warnings?

According to Inbau, many criminal cases can only be solved through _____.

Ashcraft v. Tennessee extended the protections afforded by the Due Process Clause to include _____.