J.B.D vs North Carolina How should minors be interrogated?

J.D.B was a 13 year old kid going to school at Smith Middle school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. One afternoon while walking in a neighborhood that had a couple recent burglaries, JBD was stopped and questioned nothing came out. Couple days pass and there are reports of J.B.D having a camera that matched the description of the stolen camera. The next day at school a uninformed detective interrupted his class and escorted him to the school conference room where there was another police officer and some school officials. J.D.B was not read his miranda rights and was not told that he was free to leave without answering questions. J.D.B initially denied stealing the camera but later succumbed to the pressure of the school administrators to admit to the crime. After he confessed the officers read him his miranda rights and told him that he was free to leave. At trial in the juvenile court, the confession was a key piece of evidence. J.D.B's public defender filed a motion to suppress the confession because he said that he was not read his miranda rights prior to questioning. The motion was denied on the grounds that he was not in police custody at the time. During the appeals J.D.B lost because the North Carolina supreme court said that they could not take his age or special needs in deciding whether he should get read his miranda rights. The court also said that since he was not in police custody he was not entitled to his miranda rights. After this, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to grant certiary to this case. The Supreme Decided in a 5-4 ruling that the child was bound to confess even if he did not do it. The opinion was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor who said that the fact that the child was 13 years old makes him qualify to hear his rights.