Which case ruled against the police procedure of obtaining a confession, then giving Miranda, and re-questioning later?

• A. Missouri v Seibert
• B. Berghuis v Thompkins
• C. Maryland v Shatzer
• D. Caldwell v State

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is Miranda rights and when statements are admissible after custodial interrogation. Missouri v. Seibert directly addressed a tactic where police first question a suspect without warning, obtain a confession, then issue Miranda warnings and question again to get another confession. The Court ruled that this two-stage approach violates the Fifth Amendment because the second round of questioning is essentially an attempt to bypass Miranda’s protections. The warnings after the fact do not cure the taint created by the initial unwarned interrogation, so the resulting statements from the first stage are generally not admissible, and the second stage can’t reliably salvage the case unless there’s a genuine break in custody and the interrogation is conducted properly after the warnings.

In contrast, the other cases deal with different aspects of how and when Miranda rights apply or are waived, such as how silence or invocation is handled, or how long police must wait before re-interviewing after a rights invocation. Those topics are related to Miranda in general but do not establish the same rule about the two-stage confession technique Seibert rejected.