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Article: NEW FIGHT BREWS ON CONFESSIONS VS. MIRANDA RULE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 10, 1999
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A federal appeals court has ruled that despite the Supreme Court's landmark 1966 Miranda decision, prosecutors can use a confession from a suspect who opens his mouth before he has been read his rights.
In a 2-1 ruling Monday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a 1968 federal law on voluntary confessions takes precedence over the Miranda ruling in federal cases.
The decision could touch off a new Supreme Court battle over the rights of criminal suspects.
In the meantime, the appeals court ruling is binding in five states - Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.
The 1966 ...