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15. If I Answer Police Questions Even After I'm Given the Miranda Warning, Is It Ever Possible to Exclude What I Say?

  Under some circumstances, yes. If the police induce a suspect to speak because of illegalbehavior engaged in by the police, the suspect's statements may be excluded under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine. For instance, assume that the police induce a suspect to confess by confronting the suspect with objects the police seized during an illegal search. (For more on search and seizure, see Chapter 2.) If seeing the illegally seized objects induced the suspect to confess, a judge may throw out the confession as the fruit of the poisonous tree (the illegal search), even if the police first gave the Miranda warning.

  More About Poisonous Fruit

  The "fruit of the poisonous tree" rule prevents police officers and prosecutors from indirectly benefiting from improper searches and interrogations. The rule provides that if police find out about evidence as the result of an illegal search or interrogation, a judge can bar a prosecutor from using the evidence at trial. (Wong Sun v. United States, U.S. Sup. Ct. 1963.) The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine removes what would otherwise be a big incentive for police officers to conduct illegal searches and interrogations.
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生词表:
  • warning [´wɔ:niŋ] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.警告;前兆 a.预告的 四级词汇
  • illegal [i´li:gəl] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.不合法的,非法的 六级词汇
  • poisonous [´pɔizənəs] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.有毒的;讨厌的 四级词汇
  • indirectly [,indi´rektli] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.间接地;迂回地 六级词汇
  • improper [im´prɔpə] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.不恰当的;不正确的 六级词汇
  • incentive [in´sentiv] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.刺激;鼓励;动机 六级词汇


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