Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “'It is an unwarranted extension of Miranda to hold that a simple failure to administer the warnings, unaccompanied by any actual coercion or other cireum-stances calculated to undermine the suspect's ability to exercise his free will so taints the investigatory process that a subsequent voluntary and informed waiver is ineffective for some indeterminate period. Though Mirando requires that the unwarned admission must be suppressed, the admissibility of any subsequent statement should turn in these cireumstances solely on whether it is knowingly and voluntarily made. "# * * #k #k a We must conclude that, absent deliberately coercive or improper tactics in obtaining the initial statement, the mere fact that a suspect has made an unwarned admission does not warrant a presumption of compulsion. A subsequent administration of Miranda warnings to a suspect who has given .a voluntary but unwarned statement ordinarily should suffice to remove the conditions that precluded admission of the earlier statement. In such cireumstances, the finder of fact may reasonably conclude that the suspect made a rational and intelligent choice whether to waive or invoke his rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foster v. State