State v. Barlow

MEYER, Justice.

The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution mandated suppression of defendant’s videotaped confession, made after she waived her Miranda rights, solely because the confession was preceded by incriminating statements made by defendant without the benefit of Miranda warnings. Assuming that the preceding statements were obtained in violation of the prophylactic rule established in Miranda, we conclude that the un-Mirandized statements were not coerced in violation of defendant’s Fifth Amendment right…