Title: Ernesto Miranda Trials: 1963 & 1967 | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Ernesto Miranda Trials: 1963 & 1967
Ernesto Miranda Trials: 1963 & 1967
Ernesto Miranda Trials: 1963 & 1967
Tainted Evidence
Conviction Overturned
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Content: There had been no blatant coercion or brutality, and included in the confession was a section stating that he understood his rights. When the detectives left interrogation room 2, they were pleased, not realizing the legal repercussions that would result from their efforts. Tainted Evidence
As an indigent, Miranda was granted a court-appointed defender, Alvin Moore. Moore studied the evidence. The state had an apparently unassailable case, buttressed by Miranda's confession. And yet there was something about that confession that Moore found troubling. Convinced it had been obtained improperly, he intended to move for its inadmissibility. Only four witnesses appeared for the prosecution: the victim, her sister, and Detectives Cooley and Young. After their testimony, Deputy County Attorney Laurence Turoff told the jury that the victim "did not enter into this act of intercourse with him [Miranda] willfully, but in fact she was forced to, by his own force and violence, directed against her."