Miranda V. Arizona Case Study

The case Miranda V. Arizona was an interesting case to read about because it changed the way police informed people their rights while arresting them. This case presents a conflict of police not informing Ernesto Miranda about his 14th and 15th Amendment and did not notify the defendant about his constitutional rights against self incrimination under the fifth amendment. This became a big issue as then miranda’s attorney provided written confession as an evidence to show that he was not informed about his fifth amendment. I believe that police should inform people about their rights before arresting them because it falls under our amendments and you cannot break those amendments.

Ernesto Miranda was a man that was arrested and locked up in

(The Dynamic Court). This is the opposing side of Miranda V. Arizona of the officers admitting that they had not told Miranda about his rights and that helped the judges and court to make a decision. “The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled that the prosecution could not introduce Miranda's confession as evidence in a criminal trial because the police had failed to first inform Miranda of his right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. The police duty to give these warnings is compelled by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which gives a criminal suspect the right to refuse "to be a witness against himself," and Sixth Amendment, which guarantees criminal defendants the right to an attorney.”. (Alex Mcbride) This is the decision made by supreme court Chief Earl Warren that helped Miranda to benefit from the fca that police officers had not told him the rights while interrogating him. The evidence was not used against Miranda. The decision of this case made in 1966 and the decision was overturned, favoring Miranda and his attorney. This was a close decisions as it was voted 5-4 with the chief Earl Warren having the deciding vote. The police was wrong because if Miranda had knew about an attorney, the results of this case might have been different today. There were a lot of amendments that were looked into during this case but the couple that mostly stood out were fifth and sixth amendments because they supported Miranda’s attorney and had not been told to Miranda while the whole integration period or before that time. The court made his final decision by ruling the case unconstitutional because it violated miranda’s