Legal Opinion
State v. P.Z.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided November 26, 1997PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
PORITZ, C.J.
We granted leave to appeal, 143 N.J. 480, 672 A.2d 1164 (1996), to consider whether a caseworker from the Child Protective Services Unit of the Division of Youth and Family Services (“DYFS” or “Division”) must give Miranda warnings to a parent prior to a non-eustodial interview related to a child abuse investigation. Defendant, P.Z., provided an inculpatory statement to a DYFS caseworker during an at-home interview conducted in the course of a Title Nine1 inquiry. The caseworker reported the substance of the statement to the Ocean County…
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