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.