CTC Courts Interrogation of Resident Assistants Actions Discussion
Chapter 7 – State v. Ellis
- List all the actions taken by the resident assistants and the Central State Police Department officers
- that invaded Ellis’s Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his dorm room.
- Explain why the court’s interrogation of resident assistants’ actions was consistent with reasonable Fourth Amendment searches but the police officers’ actions were unreasonable. Do you agree? Defend your answer.
- Interrogate Ellis’s Fourth Amendment privacy ideal from his standpoint. Back up your answer.
- As they relate to the special needs/privacy ideal, should it matter whether the resident assistants, campus police, or city police conducted the search? Defend your answer.
Chapter 8 – Miranda v. Arizona
- According to SCOTUS, what do the words “custody” and “interrogation” mean?
- Why is custodial interrogation “inherently coercive,” according to the majority?
- Identify and explain the criteria for waiving the right against self-incrimination in custodial interrogation.
- On what grounds do the dissenters disagree with the majority’s decision? What interests are in conflict, according to the Court?
- How do the majority and the dissent explain the balance of interests established by the Constitution?
- Which is more consistent with the relevant criminal procedures ideals regarding the law of police interrogation, the majority’s bright-line rule, requiring warnings, or the dissent’s due process test, weighing the totality of circumstances on a case-by-case basis? Defend your answer.
