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Article: Do police have the right to remain silent? Court may reexamine validity of Miranda warning - a bedrock of UScriminal law.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 4, 1999
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It is perhaps the most often repeated piece of legal advice in the United States, made famous more by TV cops than judges or real-life police officers.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...."
Thirty-three years after the US Supreme Court instructed the nation's law officers to always offer such advice to arrested suspects prior to questioning them, the high court may be on the verge of rethinking the necessity of the so-called Miranda warnings.
Earlier this year a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that such warnings weren't necessary so long as incriminating ...