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Police detectives begin to interrogate a criminal suspect without having read the Miranda warnings. During this initial questioning, the suspect makes an incriminating statement. The detectives, after hearing the incriminating statement, make the suspect aware of his Miranda rights. Questioning continues and the suspect repeats the incriminating information. How are the courts most likely to view the statement?


A) The incriminating statement is inadmissible.
B) The incriminating statement is admissible, but any derivative evidence that can be gathered from the information in the statement is inadmissible.
C) The incriminating statement is inadmissible, but any derivative evidence that can be gathered from the information in the statement is admissible.
D) The incriminating statement is admissible, as is any derivative evidence that can be gathered from the information in the statement.

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