Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the defendant's police statements were admissible despite no warning about the right to counsel.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The statements remained usable because he knew, from a prior represented DUI case, that he could request counsel; the police omission did not require exclusion.
Extrahierte Begründung
The fair-trial duty includes informing suspects of procedural rights, but the Court applied its case law on omitted warnings by analogy: statements are generally inadmissible, except where the accused knew the right. The defendant's prior case showed such knowledge, and the later Code of Criminal Procedure had no retroactive effect.