Interview & Interrogation Case Law is the deep dive into the modern Miranda doctrine and the cases that have shaped it. The course is built for working officers who do interviews and interrogations and want to keep statements admissible at trial.
The course is organized around the three triggers of Miranda (custody, imminent interrogation, known officer) plus the full life cycle of an interrogation: admonishment, waiver, invocation, reinitiation, exceptions, and the miscellaneous rules that come up in real cases. The When Miranda Is Required question is broken into four lessons because the doctrine is fact-specific. You will work through the Fifth Amendment foundation, why Miranda exists, custody analysis (formal arrest standard, station-house interviews under free-to-leave, roadside detentions under Berkemer v. McCarty, jails and prisons under Howes v. Fields), the four required warnings under admonishment, knowing-and-voluntary waivers (express and implied), unambiguous invocations and the cross-investigation consequence, reinitiation under Michigan v. Mosley, Edwards v. Arizona, and Maryland v. Shatzer, the public safety exception from New York v. Quarles, the no-cure rule for intentional violations from Missouri v. Seibert, and the miscellaneous rules including volunteered statements, the booking exception, dual-purpose statements, and the Sixth Amendment overlay from Massiah v. United States.
After completing the course, you will be able to identify whether the Miranda triggers are present, conduct a clean admonishment, obtain a defensible waiver, recognize and honor unambiguous invocations, reinitiate the right way for each type of invocation, use the public safety exception correctly, and handle the close cases that decide whether your interview survives suppression.
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