Jody Stanley, Jr. v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc., Eddie L. Brown v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc.

Appellants were arrested for robbery and placed in the back seat of a police car. They were not given warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 1966, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602,16 L.Ed.2d 694. The police clandestinely activated a tape recorder in the front seat, and it recorded an incriminatory conversation conducted between the appellants when the police were not present. The appellants’ motion to suppress thé conversation was denied by the state trial court. Thereafter Brown pleaded nolo contendere to the robbery charge, reserving the right to appeal the suppression ruling; 1 Stanley…