Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Once an officer has read a defendant his/her rights, the officer may assume the defendant understands these rights.
2. If the police use the “question first and warn later” interrogation technique, any statement made by the suspect is inadmissible at trial.
3. Police may question a suspect who has invoked his/her Miranda rights about a different offense if the police have “scrupulously honored” the suspect’s initial invocation.
4. Once a suspect initiates contact with the police by asking them unnecessary questions, any invocation of his/her Miranda rights is waved.
5. Statements that are not direct questions but are designed intentionally to elicit a response from a suspect are treated as questions in regard to Miranda warnings.


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True

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