Oregon v. Elstad
Oregon v. Elstad, 470 U.S. 298 (1985), was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States case relating to Miranda warnings.A witness to the burglary contacted the local sheriff's office and implicated an 18 year old neighbor, Michael Elstad.About an hour later, the same officers began interrogating Elstad by reading him his Miranda rights for the first time.During this interrogation, the officers obtained a written admission of Elstad's involvement in the burglary.[2] The issue presented was whether the self-incrimination clause of the 5th Amendment requires suppression of a confession made after Miranda warnings and a waiver, because police obtained an earlier admission without Miranda warnings.