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It’s late. You had an argument with your wife. You don’t want things to get worse, so you leave and spend the night on a friend’s couch. The next morning, there’s a message on your phone. A police officer wants to talk to you about last night.

You may have been pulled over by a police officer. You have probably submitted to the standard three field sobriety tests. You have probably answered some of the police officer’s questions.

If the State wants to use your statements, oral or otherwise, against you later at court, the police must read you a Miranda warning under certain circumstances.