Rideau v. Louisiana

On. the evening of February 16, 1961, a man robbed a bank in Lake Charles, Louisiana, kidnapped three of the *724bank’s employees, and killed one of them. A few hours later the petitioner, Wilbert Rideau, was apprehended by the police and lodged in the Calcasieu Parish jail in Lake Charles. The next morning a moving picture film with a sound track was made of an “interview” in the jail between Rideau and the Sheriff of Calcasieu Parish. This “interview” lasted approximately 20 minutes. It consisted of interrogation by the sheriff and admissions by Rideau that he had perpetrated the bank robbery,…