Fellers v. United States

After a grand jury indicted Fellers (defendant) for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, officers went to his home, told him he'd been indicted because of his ties to named co-suspects, and got him to admit he had used drugs with them — all without any Miranda warning or counsel present. At the jail, Fellers signed a written Miranda waiver and repeated similar admissions. He moved to suppress both sets of statements. A magistrate suppressed only the pre-arrest statements as taken without Miranda warnings and treated the post-arrest statements as tainted fruit; the district court disagreed, admitted everything, and Fellers was convicted. The court of appeals held the home questioning wasn't an "interrogation" and the jail statements were voluntary.