State v. Miller

I respectfully dissent.

I agree with Sections I, II and the first grammatical paragraph of Section III of the majority opinion.

But, I agree with defendant’s contention that the interrogation techniques employed by Officers Winston and Ailor that includ*285ed misrepresentation and deception at the jail in Ohio, were psychologically coercive, that the confession was improperly influenced and involuntary and that the taint of that interrogation rendered the Knoxville interrogation and confession inadmissible.

The Miranda court, noting that coercion can be mental as well as physical, examined the…