The Legal Updates Winter 2018 column contains cases which address the following issues:

• When the interview became custodial the suspect should have been advised of his Miranda rights
• Promises on leniency nullify the admissibility of the confession
• Officer�s questions to defendant while at door of her residence, were compelling, thus giving rise to the need for Miranda warnings
• Lying about DNA evidence is not coercive
• Lying about footprints, fingerprints and other evidence is not coercive
• Court finds confession inadmissible due to denial of subject�s request for an attorney
• Court suggests police used Assistant Principal to question student to avoid the advisement of rights