Miranda warning Essays

  • What Is The Miranda Warning?

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    MIRANDA WARNING 2 The Duhaime’s Law Dictionary defines Miranda Warning as: “A requirement that police officers, in the U.S.A., before any questioning is so begun, warn suspects upon arrest that they have the right to remain silent, that any statement that they make could be used against them in a court of law, that they have the right to contact a lawyer and that if they cannot afford a lawyer, that one will be provided”. If an officer fails to read the Miranda warning prior to questioning

  • The Miranda Warning

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    The Miranda Warning For the past decade, many Right Wing organizations have sort to change many of the laws, governing our rights and freedom. These laws were passed by congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. The Miranda Warning is one of these laws. The Miranda Warning is intended to protect the guilty as well as the innocent and should be protected at all costs. Without the law, many suspects may be treated unfairly. It is a necessary safeguard. Miranda is a ruling which says that the accused

  • Research Paper On The Miranda Warning

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    paper provides an overlook about the Miranda Warning. The five parts of the Miranda warning are analyzed for an unaware person about the law. Each part of the Miranda warning is given and explained to make an unaware person know exactly what it means. It explains how the Miranda warning is an appropriate balance between the defendant’s rights and it still enables law enforcement to do their job duties. The Supreme Court wants to pull back the Miranda Warnings in the near future. The writer is against

  • Argumentative Analysis: The Miranda Warning

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    This a great question and I believe you have to break the scenario down to determine when the "Miranda Warning" should have been used. The first sentence states, "while on patrol, Officer Norman heard a scream from the backyard of a house." Officer Norman is performing his duties and hears a scream from behind a house. This event happened within the normal scope of his duties. The second sentence states, "the officer proceeded to the back of the house, where he observed two people, a badly beaten

  • Criminal Investigations, In Custody and Miranda Warnings

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    statement, confession, refusal, corroborated with self-supporting documentation that could yield a guilty allegation or it could gather a determining guilt (Orthman, Hess, 2013). Identify the rule when Miranda warnings are required. Most citizens believe that if they are arrested and not read their Miranda rights then they can leave without punishment, not the case what so ever. In situations that the police neglect to read a suspect their rights the prosecutor can’t use anything the suspect says and

  • Law Enforcement and Miranda Warnings Case Analysis

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    did with the situation after the arrest. We will identify four issues during the arrest that related to the Miranda Laws. Then, we will try and relate these issues to a historical case. Later, we will carefully analysis the situation and see if we could resolve the issues or not. We will then go over how these issues could have been prevent from happening. Law Enforcement and Miranda Warnings The FTL should have told the arresting officer once he realized the suspect did not speak English, he should

  • The Miranda Warnings: Miranda V. Arizona

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    have been to the U.S. Supreme Court and it was discovered that there was mistakes made on behalf of law enforcement. Take the case, Miranda v. Arizona, this is where the Miranda Warning came from. We are going to look at the chain of events that happened to Mr. Ernesto Miranda, what the outcome of the case was, and what exactly are the Miranda Warnings. Ernesto Miranda, since early childhood, after the death of his mother, and his father remarried, he began to get into trouble with the law. He had

  • State Court Case: The Case Of Miranda V. Arizona

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    MIRANDA 2 The case of Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436 [1966]) is one of the most important cases in history. It brought about prominent rights that are still existent today in 2015 regarding interrogations and custody. The results of this case are still seen in the current criminal justice system. However, even though the rights that were given to the system by the court, there are still instances today in which these Miranda rights are violated. The concept of Miranda has evolved a lot from a court

  • Fifth Amendment Essay

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    Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment (Burton, 2007). The one exception to asking questions without warning is if there is some type of danger to the public, which allows officers to engage in questioning. The government cannot force citizens to tes... ... middle of paper ... ...ained in their questioning. Officers commonly have small cards with the Miranda warnings on them so they don’t forget or skip over a part of ones right, if this does occur evidence still cannot be properly

  • Trial Options and the Defendant's Rights

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    The Miranda warnings stem from a United States Court’s decision in the case, Miranda v. Arizona. There are two basic conditions that must be met for Miranda warnings to be required: the suspect must be in official police custody and the suspect must be under interrogation. The suspect goes through a booking process after an arrest. The suspect will have a bond hearing shortly after the completion of the booking process or after arraignment. The arraignment is the suspect’s first court appearance

  • Miranda Research Paper

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    The Use of Miranda The rule outlined in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 16 L.Ed.2d 694, 86 S.Ct. 1602 (1966), requires that certain safeguards be put in place by an officer to protect an individual’s privilege against self-incrimination when an individual is taken into custody is subjected to questioning. The procedural safeguards require that an individual interrogated while in custody be told, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court

  • The Miranda Rights as they are today are no longer appropriate and need to be modified

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    Thesis: The Miranda Rights as they are today are no longer appropriate and need to be modified. A young couple is murdered in the middle of the night. The next night a single mother of two is raped and killed in her apartment. Her children murdered beside her. A killer is on the loose. The citizens are scared. The police form a task force. Finally, after weeks of investigations and false leads, a suspect is identified and apprehended. The suspect is interrogated and eventually confesses

  • Ernesto Miranda V. Arizona

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    Ernesto Miranda grew up not finishing high school. He didn’t finish the 9th grade, and he decided to drop out of school during that year. He also had a criminal record and had pronounced sexual fantasies after dropping out of high school. Ernesto Miranda was arrested in Phoenix in 1963. He had raped an 18 yr. girl who was mildly mentally handicapped in March of 1963. He was charged with rape, kidnapping, and robbery. When he was found and arrested, and he was not told of his rights before interrogation

  • Genovevo Salinas Case Study

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    defendant Genovevo Salinas who agreed to hand over his weapon for ballistics testing and to go to the police station for questioning. The interview lasted for about one hour, and both parties agree it was noncustodial therefore he was not read his Miranda warning. Salinas answered most of the officer’s questions during the interview, but fell silent and his body tensed up when asked if the shotgun would match the shells recovered at the murder scene. After a few minutes of silence, the officer continued

  • Characteristics Of Special Need Searchs

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    In chapter seven, Joel Samaha discusses a wide range of special need searches. Special-needs searches are generated by government interest in the public setting. According to Samaha, special-needs searches consist of four characteristics: 1. they’re directed at people generally, not criminal suspects and defendants specifically, 2. they can result in criminal prosecution and conviction, 3. they don’t require warrants or probable cause, 4. their reasonableness depends on balancing special government

  • Miranda V. Arizona Case Study

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    The Miranda v. Arizona case not just for the case itself, but also for the significance of the case it had after the case. The Miranda is a nationwide that has changed law enforcement and has changed the rights of an individual. The Miranda rights law took affect after a man named Ernesto Miranda was under arrest by police officers. As police arrested Ernesto Miranda they didn’t read him his rights. Ernest Miranda lived in Phoenix, Arizona where he was charged with rape, kidnapping and robbery.

  • Miranda V. Arizona Case: Ernesto Miranda's Law

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    Ernesto Miranda Ernesto Arturo Miranda was born in Mesa, Arizona on March 9, 1941. During his grade school years, Miranda began getting in trouble. His first criminal conviction was during his eighth grade year. The following year, now a 9th grade dropout, he was convicted of burglary. His sentence was a year in the reform school, Arizona State Industrial School for Boys (ASISB). After his release from the reform school, he got into trouble again with the law and was returned to ASISB. Once released

  • Understanding the Right to Counsel: Comparing the Fifth and Sixth Amendments

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    prosecution. The Fifth Amendment right to counsel was recognized as part of Miranda v. Arizona and refers to the right to counsel during a custodial interrogation; Meaning It doesn 't necessarily mean handcuffed but the police have taken the suspect his or her freedom of action in any significant way for example a traffic stop. In this case the defendant was not taken to court instead he was arrested assuming that the Miranda rights were read to him dealing with this scenario on the 5th amendment.

  • Miranda Rights Case Analysis

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    of AZ v Mauro, a necessary precursor to the case analysis is defining the application of Miranda Rights (Miranda v. Arizona) and the difference between an unlawful or lawful interrogation within the Miranda Rights. The most commonly misinterpreted actions that prompt the need for Miranda, which is only necessary if a formal custody and an interrogation will coincide. When Mirandized or given a Miranda warning informing an individual of their rights against self-incrimination, protected under the Fifth

  • Miranda Rights

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    Miranda Rights In this paper I am going to be discussing the Miranda rights. What they mean to you, what they entitle you to, and how they came to be used in law enforcement today. I am discussing this topic because, one it is useful to me as a police officer, two they can be very difficult to understand, and three if they are not read properly to you when you are placed under an arrest it could actually get you off. I will start off by discussing the history and some details of the Miranda