Interrogation

Informants

Law enforcement often uses informants to obtain incriminating information from suspects. Despite the fact that a suspect does not realize he is incriminating himself, the use of an informant alone will not violate a suspect's Fifth Amendment Miranda rights.

In Illinois v. Perkins, 496 U.S. 292 (1990), police informants posed as prisoners and successfully obtained information from a murder suspect connecting the suspect to a specific murder. The informants, obviously, did not read the suspect his Miranda rights, and the suspect had no indication the informants were law enforcement. The United States Supreme Court held that these conversations did not take place in a "police-dominated atmosphere," and, therefore, was not an interrogation requiring the reading of Miranda rights. Furthermore . . .

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