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In this case, the police deceptively took advantage of Perkins' psychological vulnerability by including him in a sham escape plot, a situation in which he would feel compelled to demonstrate his willingness to shoot a prison guard by revealing his past involvement in a murder.
ILLINOIS v. PERKINS. CERTIORARI TO THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS, JUDICIAL DISTRICT. FIFTH. No. 88-1972. Argued February 20, 1990-Decided June 4, 1990. Police placed undercover agent Parisi in a jail cellblock with respondent Perkins, who was incarcerated on charges unrelated to the murder that Parisi was investigating.
20 lut 1990 · next in No. 88-1972, Illinois v. Lloyd Perkins. Ms. Friedl, you may proceed whenever you're ready. ORAL ARGUMENT OF MARCIA L. FRIEDL ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER MS. FRIEDL: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: This case comes from the Illinois Appellate Court which upheld the suppression of Defendant's murder confession on the ...
Facts. After obtaining information that a murder suspect was being held in jail on an unrelated charge, police placed an undercover agent in jail with the suspect. The agent engaged the suspect in conversations, and the suspect then made incriminating statements about the murder.
This Note analyzes Illinois v. Perkins, a 1990 United States Supreme Court case. The Court concluded that the concerns of Miranda v. Arizona were not implicated in Perkins, a case in which an undercover law enforcement officer posed as an inmate to elicit incriminating statements from-a murder suspect
Justice Kennedy. delivered the opinion of the Court. An undercover government agent was placed in the cell of respondent Perkins, who was incarcerated on charges unrelated to the subject of the agent’s investigation. Respondent made statements that implicated him in the crime that the agent sought to solve.
Illinois v. Perkins 496 U.S. 292, 110 S. Ct. 2394, 110 L. Ed.2d 243 (1990) Perkins was in jail on suspicion for murder. His cellmate (and prison snitch), Charlton, told police that Perkins had confessed to him. The police put an undercover officer, Parisi, in the jail cell, under the guise of being another prisoner.
