DELIBERATE ELICITATION
deliberate elicitation.Criminal procedure. The purposeful yet covert drawing forth of an
incriminating response (usu. not during a formal interrogation) from a suspect whose Sixth
Amendment right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right. • Deliberate
elicitation may occur, for example, when a police officer engages an arrested suspect in
conversation on the way to the police station. Deliberate elicitation violates the Sixth
Amendment.Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199 (1964). See MASSIAH
RULE . [Blacks Law 8th]