Court Opinion

ID: 9563564
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:41:54.787091+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:55.269660
License: Public Domain

STEWART, Justice,
concurring:
Although I agree that defendant’s Miranda rights were not violated by the police interrogation in this ease, I do not believe that the police interrogation was altogether benign. In my view, the interrogation was manipulative from a psychological point of view, with the two officers who conducted the interrogation playing almost classic “good cop,” “bad cop” roles. I think it important to point out that psychological manipulation can be found to be coercive under the rules developed in Miranda jurisprudence and to emphasize that courts should not be misled by subtle and highly sophisticated police tactics that skirt the boundaries of improper official conduct. I do not, however, believe that the interrogation in this case transcended the boundaries that Miranda places on coercive police interrogations.
DURHAM, Associate C.J., concurs in the concurring opinion of Justice STEWART.