Test your understanding of criminal law with our Miranda Review Quiz, highlighting key issues on statement admissibility and Fifth Amendment rights.

From The Classroom
By: Ray Hill. Professor Emeritus 
Santa Rosa Junior College 

Miranda Review Quiz #2 

1) A suspect is arrested for murder. After a Miranda admonition, he wants to speak with counsel. No further questioning takes place. The suspect's wife arrives at the police station wanting to talk to the suspect. You relay this message to the suspect. He wants to talk with his wife. The wife is neither coached or prepped to ask questions of the suspect. The couple is then placed in an interrogation room inside the detective bureau. Their subsequent conversation is tape recorded without their knowledge. Incriminating admissions are made by the suspect.  

This recording should be  

ADMISSIBLE or INADMISSIBLE 

2) An in-custody suspect is questioned without a Miranda waiver or police ignore a request for counsel and continue questioning. He claims the failure to comply with Miranda requirements violated his Fifth Amendment rights. He seeks a civil remedy under Title 42 – Section 1983 United States Code for a violation his federal civil rights under color of law. Will this lawsuit be successful  

YES or NO 

3) A suspect is charged with soliciting the murder of his business partner. A criminal complaint was filed in Superior Court and an arrest warrant issued in his name. Hoping to gain a ....