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...Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor's court also obliged state and local police to warn a suspect that he has a right to silence and counsel. In 1966, the Supreme Court followed suit in Miranda v. Arizona...
...Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court spells out the rights of criminal suspects in police custody...
...decision of the Ohio District Court of Appeals. Paul Ferguson, 57, of Columbus, was appealing his conviction for trying to pass a forged check; he had used someone else's social security card to cash the check, and his lawyers were contending that under the Miranda ruling limiting police interrogations Ferguson had been improperly induced to admit that the social security card...
...hate to see the judicial process used for extrajudicial ends," says Victor Earle of New York City, one of the lawyers who argued the historic Miranda case before the Supreme Court. He was referring in part to the generally held view that Dinis' intention may be to enhance his own political career. Abraham Goldstein, professor of law at Yale, is among those who believe that Dinis should have brought the case before a grand jury, which would have conducted its hearings in secret. "The whole investigative process could be pursued more reasonably with a grand jury." says Goldstein. Professor...
...They point out that when the Senator came to the Edgartown police station to report the accident, he was not warned of his rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer. However, many law experts, including Harvard Law Professor Livingston Hall, believe that the Supreme Court's Miranda decision would not require the warnings in Kennedy's case. Hall points to a passage in the decision that reads: "There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime." Such volunteered statements, the decision goes...