Arrested? In jail? That inmate next to you could be an undercover cop. Don't talk to anyone other than your attorney!

EVEN AFTER DEMAND FOR COUNSEL, IT’S OK TO PLANT AN OFFICER IN THE DEFENDANT’S CELL

In Perkins (496 US 292) the US Supreme Court held that when the police put a plant in the cell with the defendant to get a confession, the plant doesn’t have to give Miranda warnings. This defendant directly asserted his right to counsel. The police stopped interrogating him, but put him in a cell with an undercover officer, and that officer elicited admissions the DA was permitted to introduce at trial. The incriminating statements he freely made to someone he believed to be a fellow inmate were properly admitted.”
People v. Felix; B317938; 3/7/24; C/A 2nd, Div. 8