For essays: remember to copy and paste discussion questions into your response; divide your response into separate and well organized paragraphs; use andboldfaceterms from the vocabulary page as graded in the rubric; define yourvocabulary terms before you apply it to your analysis, cite to your class materials to bolster and anchor your points, use examples from your materials (you may also use examples beyond our material (for examples only)), just remember to cite them.

The following question should be answered in four parts, but it addresses different aspects of how we interpret voluntariness as opposed to coercion. What is required before an interrogee's waiver of their Miranda rights can be considered valid? Conversely, what factors do the courts consider in deciding whether an interrogee's waiver of their Miranda warnings was coerced? Which factors, separately or combined, may lead to a decision that confession was compelled and not voluntarily given? How do the courts' analysis of adult waivers, differ from the waivers of juvenile waivers?