This is probably the worst mistake I have ever seen in a crime drama, dating back to "Starsky and Hutch"
Lisbon and Jane catch a suspect red-handed and get a confession but no one on the show realized it was coerced before filming concluded? INADMISSIBLE! Lisbon holds Drew at gunpoint, never issues a Miranda Warning (Drew's rights) but asks for his confession ("Was it just for the money?"), which he gives in full detail! I would have sang too! If Drew has a good lawyer, nothing that happened in that house that night will likely be admissible in court. Sure, Jane might lie to protect Lisbon but I don't see both of them lying on the witness stand. I have never seen a crime drama with a scene like this. A police officer who seems to think that it's OK to point their gun at the suspect and ask for a confession, which doesn't take place at a police station so there's no assumed Miranda Warning. Lisbon would have to lower her gun AND issue a Miranda Warning in order to use the confession. It feels like everyone from the writers, producers, director, editor and actors all missed this. But, how? It makes me wonder if the writers, and maybe others, are really only interested in the Red John storyline and everything else is mailed in. Unbelievable.
Lisbon and Jane catch a suspect red-handed and get a confession but no one on the show realized it was coerced before filming concluded? INADMISSIBLE! Lisbon holds Drew at gunpoint, never issues a Miranda Warning (Drew's rights) but asks for his confession ("Was it just for the money?"), which he gives in full detail! I would have sang too! If Drew has a good lawyer, nothing that happened in that house that night will likely be admissible in court. Sure, Jane might lie to protect Lisbon but I don't see both of them lying on the witness stand. I have never seen a crime drama with a scene like this. A police officer who seems to think that it's OK to point their gun at the suspect and ask for a confession, which doesn't take place at a police station so there's no assumed Miranda Warning. Lisbon would have to lower her gun AND issue a Miranda Warning in order to use the confession. It feels like everyone from the writers, producers, director, editor and actors all missed this. But, how? It makes me wonder if the writers, and maybe others, are really only interested in the Red John storyline and everything else is mailed in. Unbelievable.