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Maryland v. Shatzer, No. 08-680 (U.S. Supreme Court) (559 U.S. 98; 130 S.Ct. 1213) (February 24, 2010) (Justice Scalia)

In its landmark decision in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 467 (1966), the Court adopted the first of a series of prophylactic measures to protect a suspect's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination from the "inherently compelling pressures" of custodial interrogations. The Court observed that "incommunicado interrogation" in an "unfamiliar," ...

 

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