Title: Ernesto A. Miranda - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
Headings: Ernesto A. Miranda
Ernesto A. Miranda
Contents
Biography
Miranda v. Arizona
Epilog
Endnotes

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Ernesto Arturo Miranda -- born in (or near) Mesa, Arizona, on March 9, 1941; died in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 31, 1976; buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Arizona -- was a perverted career criminal, one of whose cases caused the Supreme Court of the United States to establish a major due-process right for defendants in criminal cases: the right not to incriminate themselves by answering police officers' questions after they are arrested. Contents
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1 Biography
2 Miranda v. Arizona
3 Epilog
4 Endnotes
Biography
When Miranda was 6 years old, his mother died; not long afterward, his father (who had immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico before the son's birth) remarried. Miranda was never on good terms with his stepmother, and he did not get along with his father or his brothers, either. While he was in 8th grade at Queen of Peace Grammar School in Mesa (where he was seldom actually present) Miranda was convicted in 1954 of his first crime, a felony burglary, and sentenced to probation. He dropped out of school after that.