RENO COUNTY— A Kansas woman who admitted having sex with an inmate at Hutchinson Correctional Facility could stand trial after a court ruled on Monday that her Miranda rights were not violated when investigators questioned her and exaggerated the evidence against her.

Marla Criqui, 45, Hutchinson, was an employee of Aramark, a food service company which contracts with the Kansas Department of Corrections to provide meals at the prison.

In 2012, anonymous letters to the Kansas Department of Correction’s investigators claimed Criqui was having a sexual relationship with convicted murderer Breland Davis.

A Reno County District Judge had issued a ruling on a defense motion to suppress statements that Criqui made to authorities stating that the interview in the case against her was not an investigatory interview.

Though the appeals court opinion acknowledged authorities used deception in an attempt to convince Criqui to confess, that detail is irrelevant to the debate over whether the questioning was an interrogation requiring a reading of Miranda rights.

Being interviewed by an employer — even a government employer — does not necessarily constitute an interrogation, the court determined.

The matter is still not over as the issue of whether Criqui’s confession was coerced because the agents lied was remanded back to Reno County for a hearing before Rose who could once again suppress the evidence on those grounds.