What is the current state of the law on the Miranda rights of a suspect who has given a voluntary but unwarned statement?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Blanco, 2d Crim. No. B298697 (Cal. App. 2020):

incriminated himself." (People v. Storm, supra, 28 Cal.4th at p. 1030.) "'When neither the initial nor the subsequent admission is coerced, little justification exists for permitting the highly probative evidence of a voluntary confession to be irretrievably lost to the factfinder. [] There is a vast difference between the direct consequences flowing from coercion of a confession by physical violence or other deliberate means calculated to break the suspect's will and the uncertain consequences of disclosure of a "guilty secret" freely given in response to an unwarned but noncoercive question . . . .' [Citation.] [] Under such circumstances, 'absent deliberately coercive or improper tactics in obtaining the initial statement, the mere fact that a suspect has made an unwarned admission does not warrant a presumption of compulsion. A subsequent administration of Miranda warnings to a suspect who has given a voluntary but unwarned statement ordinarily should suffice to remove the conditions that precluded admission of the earlier statement. In such circumstances, the finder of fact may reasonably conclude that the suspect made a rational and intelligent choice whether to waive or invoke his rights.' [Citation.]" (Id. at pp. 1030-1031.)

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