Opinion ID: 6357541
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Heading: Whether Miranda Warnings Needed to be Reread Before Hopkins's Second Interview With the Deputy, the Videotaped Walk-Through Interview, or the Interview With the Detective in his Police Cruiser

Text: [¶ 41] When the interrogation process is resumed after an interruption, Miranda warnings may need to be reread for statements to be admissible. State v. Birmingham , 527 A.2d 759 , 761-762 (Me. 1987). Several objective factors are examined to determine whether an accused must be re-informed of her constitutional rights: (1) the time lapse between the last Miranda warnings and the accused's statements; (2) interruptions in the continuity of the interrogation; (3) whether there was a change of location between the place where the last Miranda warnings were given and the place where the accused's statements were made; (4) whether the same officer who gave the warnings also conducted the interrogation resulting in the accused's statement; and  (5) whether the statement elicited during the complained of interrogation differed significantly from other statements which had been preceded by Miranda warnings. State v. Myers , 345 A.2d 500 , 502 (Me. 1975) ; see State v. Drake , 1999 ME 91 , ¶ 4, 731 A.2d 858 . [¶ 42] Hopkins's contention that Miranda warnings should have been reread during the second interview with the deputy, the videotaped walk-though interview with the detective, and the interview conducted with the detective in his police cruiser, is unavailing. These three interviews took place shortly after Hopkins received Miranda warnings and validly waived them, they occurred consecutively and reasonably close in time to one another, and they occurred either in Hopkins's home or right outside her home. Further, Hopkins was reminded of her Miranda rights when she was interviewed by the detective in his police cruiser, the last of the interviews at issue, but declined the detective's offer to review her Miranda rights. The court did not err in determining that Miranda warnings did not need to be repeated before these interviews.