Roney v. State

Applicability of Miranda

The objection made by defense counsel was that the admission should have been excluded because the defendant was in custody and was subject to interrogation and that, as a consequence, the exclusionary rule of Miranda applied to all statements elicited prior to the Miranda warnings. We do not agree that Miranda controls this situation.

The trial judge specifically found that the admission was not in response to interrogation and that the defendant was free to leave. In view of the record, this appears to be an unquestionably correct decision. There was no evidence to…