United States v. Tempia

A good case can be made to show that Miranda v Arizona, 384 US 436, 16 L ed 2d 694, 86 S Ct 1602 (1966), was not intended by the Supreme Court to apply to the military legal system. The Supreme Court especially pointed out that an “understanding of the nature and setting” of the kind of in-custody interrogation it was concerned with was “essential” to its decision. It illumined and analyzed interrogation techniques that were “psychologically oriented” to deprive the individual of the free and unfettered choice to speak or to remain silent. Id., at pages 445, 448. In United States v Wimberley,…