Smith v. State

In this ease we are asked to determine whether the Petitioner’s (“Thomas Smith” or “Smith”) statement to police that the “[drugs are] all mine,” made during the execution of a search warrant at Smith’s residence, was a product of police interrogation. For purposes of this opinion, we shall assume, without deciding, that Smith was in custody for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), at the time he made the statement to the police. 1 Our focus is on the question of whether the lead investigator’s act of showing Smith the contraband that the officers…