Granted. The judgments below are reversed and this case is remanded for further proceedings. Testimony at the hearing on the motion to suppress established that defendant confessed to stabbing the victim with his makeshift knife after he received his Miranda warnings. Even assuming that the detective's initial questions ranged beyond an internal prison disciplinary proceeding to the investigation of a criminal offense, that the defendant was therefore "in custody" for Miranda...
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