BRG253
02-28-2009, 08:26 PM
How do you guys feel about the Miranda v. Arizona decision?
It is the 1966 Supreme Court decision which resulted in the requirement for police to read criminal suspects their rights.
This is nothing in the Constitution which requires police to do this, but the judges believed that custodial interrogations are inherently coercive and so they saw the requirement as upholding the Constitution rather than violating it.
The dissenting opinion, of course, was that the decision was unconstitutional.
Thoughts?
It is the 1966 Supreme Court decision which resulted in the requirement for police to read criminal suspects their rights.
This is nothing in the Constitution which requires police to do this, but the judges believed that custodial interrogations are inherently coercive and so they saw the requirement as upholding the Constitution rather than violating it.
The dissenting opinion, of course, was that the decision was unconstitutional.
Thoughts?