Blaine Ross, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee — Quince, J., Concurring

Summary

The concurrence agrees that the police deliberately used a question-first interrogation technique by questioning Ross in circumstances where he was not free to leave, obtaining incriminating statements, and only then administering Miranda warnings while minimizing their significance. It warns that this technique undermines the purpose of Miranda and may jeopardize otherwise valid prosecutions. Justice Polston, dissenting, would have deferred to the trial court's finding that the delay was not deliberate and would have admitted Ross's post-warning confession under the voluntariness standard; the second separate writing likewise concludes that the post-warning confession should be admissible.