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Article: Silencing `Right to Remain Silent'.(Miranda rule under fire)(Brief Article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- April 2, 1999
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YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you....
If you've ever seen a police show on TV, you've heard the words of the Miranda warning informing people who are arrested of their rights. The wanting grew out of a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Miranda v. Arizona. The Court overturned the conviction of a man because he had not been aware of his rights under the Constitution.
On February 8, however, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that even though a man had not been read his rights before he confessed to a bank robbery, he could still be prosecuted. The court cited a 1968 law passed by Congress ...