From the Classroom
By Raymond Hill  
Professor Emeritus, Santa Rosa Junior College 

Miranda Quiz #4 

1) You have arrested a suspect for domestic violence with serious bodily injury. Upon receiving a Miranda admonition, he demands to see counsel. You give the suspect your business card, telling him you cannot question him further, that you still would like to hear his side of the story, and that if he should want to speak in the future, he should feel free to call you. The defendant is arraigned and a public defender is appointed to represent him. He is held over for trial at prelim. 

Three weeks later, you receive a phone call from the suspect. He says he wants “to get some things off his chest.” You contact him at jail, confirm that no one has promised or induced him to make the call, give Miranda, the defendant waives and makes incriminating statements.  

The public defender objects to the introduction of the statements at trial on Sixth Amendment grounds. She argues that as representing counsel, the officer didn’t contact her first, nor was she present at the time of the interview.  

The statements should be  

ADMISSIBLE or  INADMISSIBLE  

2) A vehicular manslaughter suspect is arrested, given his Miranda rights, waives and ....