
The Booking Questions Dilemma; An Update
Robert C. Phillips
Deputy District Attorney (Ret.)
October, 2018
The rule has long been that routine booking questions asked of an in-custody suspect for the purpose of obtaining background, biographical information, are generally permitted[1] in that such questions are not considered to be part of an interrogation.[2] Any incriminating responses made by the suspect in response to such questions are typically admissible in evidence against him.