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  • Rights Of An Arrested Suspects
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    The constitution was designed to have basic laws to govern by and at the same time providing citizens with the basic rights of life, liberty and happiness (which later became property). These terms are pretty vague thus they often need to be given specific meaning or interpretation in a courtroom. The constitution also includes a set of amendments that are called the bill of rights, because they mainly deal with rights of he people and citizens of the United States. The fifth and sixth amendment...
  • Suspects From Overzealous Police Officers
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    The Miranda Warning For the past decade, many Right Wing organizations have sort to change many of the laws, governing our rights and freedom. These laws were passed by congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. The Miranda Warning is one of these laws. The Miranda Warning is intended to protect the guilty as well as the innocent and should be protected at all costs. Without the law, many suspects may be treated unfairly. It is a necessary safeguard. Miranda is a ruling which says that the accuse...
  • Decision In The Miranda Case
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    Unlike many other kinds of history, legal history often requires the disentangling of long chronological strands. Although commentators on the Fifth Amendment have tended to treat the privilege as a basic human right, slowly unfolding over the centuries, there are, in fact, a number of different principles, most of which have long been controversial, and still are, on both sides of the Atlantic. The old common-law rule was one of competence. No party to legal proceedings (civil or criminal) coul...
  • Supreme Court In Miranda
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    In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Miranda vs. Arizona. The Miranda decision was a departure from the established law in the area of police interrogation. Prior to Miranda, a confession would be suppressed only if a court determined it resulted from some actual coercion, threat, or promise. The Miranda decision was intended to protect suspects of their 5th Amendment right of no self-incrimination. The verdict of Miranda vs. Arizona is an efficient way of informi...
  • Possible Changes To Miranda
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    The Miranda rights all started in 1963. Ernest Miranda was taken into custody by Phoenix police as a suspect for the kidnapping and rape of a girl. The Phoenix police department questioned Ernest for two vigorous hours. Miranda finally confessed orally to the crime, and then wrote out a statement admitting to the crime and describing what he had done. Miranda's trial came to date; the crime was admitted despite his lawyer's advice and he was convicted and sentenced. Three years later Miranda's a...
  • Miranda Rights
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    In 1966 the Supreme Court made a ruling that every American would always know and remember. The case was Miranda versus The State of Arizona. Early in 1963, an 18-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped in Phoenix, Arizona. The police investigated the case, and soon found and arrested a poor and mentally disturbed man. The name of this man was Ernesto Miranda. Miranda was 23 years old when he was arrested. He confessed to the kidnapping and the rape after two hours of questioning. By confessing t...

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