Ernesto Miranda Trial

Ernesto Miranda was a spanish lower class citizen born and raised in Arizona. As a child Miranda had problems in grade school, a little while after Miranda’s mother died. After his mother died Miranda lost connections with the rest of his family. His criminal record began during his 8th grade year. During the next year, he was arrested and convicted of burglary and was sentenced to be sent to a reform school for one year. About a month from his reform school he committed a crime and was sent back to reform school. The second time he was released he relocated to Los Angeles. Not too long after Miranda arrived in Los Angeles he was arrested there. After 2 and a half years Miranda was evicted and sent back to Arizona, at about age 18. Afterward he traveled through the south for about 3 months, and ended up committing more crimes and served jail time in Ohio, Texas, and California, and Nashville. Miranda was able to stay out of jail for the next couple of years and had many different jobs before he got a stable job as a laborer for Phoenix Produce Company.

On March 2, 1963 around midnight, a man in his early 20’s that we now know as Ernesto Miranda got out of his car and tied up the victim called Jane Doe as she wanted her name to be kept private. He drove her out to the desert outskirts of Phoenix. She did not resist Miranda as he kidnapped her as she feared for her life. Jane Doe was raped by Miranda a crime tried before by Miranda. He made her hand over the miniscule $4 she had and drove her back to the city. During the police questioning of Jane Doe about her attacker she said that she would recognize her attacker if she saw him again. About a week after the attack Jane Doe was out late with a family member, they walked by...

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...hrough or not, they were dealing with a similar case in which the suspect won with 5 of 9 justices agreeing. The Arizona courts denied Miranda’s appeal so he remained in jail. His last chance appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, but he could not afford the $100 fee needed to do so. He sent in the papers only to have them returned because of improper papers. He resent it without the money to see if the supreme court would listen to his petition. While waiting for a response from the Supreme Court, Miranda was joined by JJ FF and FF NN. Frank’s strong point was the U.S. Constitution and NN’s was criminal law. Many Months had passed until the Supreme Court responded and the lawyers worked on the brief during this time. Towards the end of February of 1966, the legal group in which represented Miranda appeared before the supreme court to make their spoken arguments.