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Article: TOP COURT TO RULE ON MIRANDA RIGHTS CASE TO DECIDE IF LONG-IGNORED LAW OVERRULES ARREST PRACTICE.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1999
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Byline: MARC DAVIS, STAFF WRITER
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could overturn the landmark 1966 Miranda rule. That's the decision that requires police to warn suspects of their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer.
But no matter how the court rules, some local lawyers believe it may not change how police do their jobs.
That's because police, who initially feared that Miranda would make it impossible to get confessions, now see it as a valuable tool to prove in court that a confession is voluntary.
``I don't think police departments would necessarily stop advising defendants of their Miranda ...