Title: Miranda Rights - HISTORY
Headings: Miranda Rights
Miranda Rights
Contents
The Crime
Police Catch a Lead
The Confession
ACLU Gets Involved
The Landmark Decision
The Miranda Warning
Retrial, Conviction, Murder
Sources

Content: Also at play was the Fifth Amendment, which protects defendants from being compelled to become witnesses against themselves. Even though Miranda had written his confession under a statement saying that he was fully aware of his legal rights, his lawyers argued those rights had not been made explicitly clear to him. Under the duress of detainment, they argued, his confession should not be deemed admissible. The Landmark Decision
The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, agreed. In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court reversed the Arizona Supreme Court decision and declared that Miranda’s confession could not be used as evidence in a criminal trial. Warren’s 60-plus-page written opinion, released on June 13, 1966, further outlined police procedure to ensure that defendants are clearly informed their rights as they are being detained and interrogated. The Miranda Warning
Those police procedures were encapsulated in the Miranda Warning, which police departments nationwide soon began distributing on index cards to their officers so that they would recite them to suspects. The Miranda Warning reads: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.