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Article: SHOULD THE MIRANDA WARNING BE REQUIRED? SUPREME COURT WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 7, 1999
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The Supreme Court, confronting its landmark Miranda ruling head-on, agreed yesterday to decide whether police still must warn criminal suspects they have a ``right to remain silent'' and to get a lawyer's help.
The justices said they will rule by summer on whether Congress in 1968 effectively overturned the 1966 decision, familiar not only to police and suspects but to generations of Americans who have witnessed countless arrests in movies and on television.
Clinton administration lawyers are refusing to defend the anti-Miranda law enacted by Congress, but a federal appeals court upheld it earlier this year - setting the stage for this constitutional ...