Title: Miranda rights and why the police don't always read them
Headings: Miranda rights and why the police don’t always read them
Miranda rights and why the police don’t always read them
Miranda rights and why the police don’t always use them
Jailhouse informant exception
Public safety exception

Content: The Miranda warning primarily serves to protect suspects from self-incrimination, but not being arrested. The Miranda warning is given by the police officer when the suspect is in custody and under interrogation. The reading of these rights is a safeguard because placing a person under custody is likely to undermine a person’s will to resist and may compel them to speak in a self-incriminating way. The 5th amendment of the U.S. Constitution obligates law enforcement officers to advise criminal suspects of their Miranda rights before interrogation to ensure they know their rights. Miranda rights originate from the landmark U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miranda V. Arizona in 1969, where the Supreme Court ruled that police officers must advise persons placed in their custody of their rights before interrogating them. The police are obligated to read Miranda rights to a suspect in any setting, whether in jail, at the crime scene, or any other place provided there is significant restraint of the suspect’s freedom. If a detainee indicates in any manner, at any time prior or during questioning, that he or she wishes to remain silent, an officer is bound not to proceed with the interrogation. If the suspect states that he or she wants an attorney, they won’t be interrogated until an attorney is present. However, police can ask standard booking questions as name, address, age, social security number and other basic identification details. In the event that a suspect’s Miranda rights have been violated, the prosecution cannot use for most purposes anything the suspect says as evidence against the suspect at trial.