This technique produces admissible statements in homicides and other serious cases more often than you might think. Prepare the cell in advance, with audio and video recording if possible, and brief your undercover officer as to the details he needs to cover. Particularly in the more serious cases where suspects are more likely to invoke, Perkins often provides a legitimate means to reduce Miranda's impact. Miranda does not forbid strategic deception by taking advantage of a suspect's misplaced trust." The Supreme Court said this: "An undercover officer posing as a fellow inmate need not give Miranda warnings to an incarcerated suspect before asking questions that may elicit an incriminating response. The suspect's unwarned statements were admissible, because there is no compulsion to speak to a perceived fellow prisoner. Perkins, officers placed their arrestee into a cell where an undercover officer, wearing jailhouse clothes, engaged him in conversation.
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