Persuasive Essay On Miranda Rights

For nearly 40 years police officers have been reading suspects their rights. Before Miranda rights cops were not required to read a suspect his or her rights before questioning all they had to do was detain them, but On June 13th 1996, the Supreme Court decided to put into law the Miranda rights, which says you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you (Miranda" Rights and the Fifth Amendment). This law came about when an eighteen year old retarded female from Phoenix went to the local police on March 3, 1963 to report that she had been abducted by a man walking home from work. She says that she was driven to the desert and was raped (Ernesto Miranda). The detectives who were investigating this case officer Cooley and

Miranda stating that Miranda's Sixth Amendment right to counsel had been violated by the Phoenix Police Department, because there was not a lawyer present when he was being interrogated. The sixth amendment states, “ the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you. It has been most visibly tested in a series of cases involving terrorism, but much more often figures in cases that involve for jury selection or the protection of witnesses, including victims of sex crimes as well as witnesses in need of protection from retaliation” (Sixth Amendment). Two weeks after the state of Arizona responded by stating that Miranda's rights had not been violated, When he was being interrogated and gave his full confession, he signed the form saying he understood his rights ("Ernesto