A 13-year-old suspect was questioned by a police officer at school . The boy told the officer, who is not being named because he has been charged as an adult, that his mother had beaten him and threatened to kill him, according to police. But this case came down to how the `` reasonable man '' objective standard could be applied to a 13-year-old boy . Sotomayor : Officers simply need to use common sense . Alito , in dissent , says Miranda is being `` run off the rails ''
A 13-year-old suspect was questioned by a police officer at school . The boy told the officer, who is not being named because he has been charged as an adult, that his mother had beaten him and threatened to kill him, according to police. Sotomayor : Officers simply need to use common sense . Alito , in dissent , says Miranda is being `` run off the rails ''