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...Precedents. Under Warren's leadership, the court has left its greatest marks in three areas: 1) civil rights, starting with the 1954 school-desegregation decision; 2) one-man, one-vote reapportionment; and 3) widened protection for the criminal defendant, promulgated most notably in the Mapp, Gideon, Escobedo, Miranda series...
...confusion leads to the necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time interpreting what it has already said, it has had to do a large amount of this work. And sometimes the clarification can lead to new uncertainties, as did Miranda, which was meant, said Warren. "to give concrete constitutional guidelines" in answer to the questions raised by Escobedo...
...Supreme Court bench to avoid any semblance of conflict of interest now that his son Ramsey is U.S. Attorney General. Justice Clark, an undogmatic, plain-talking jurist, generally supported the court's civil rights decisions, but tended to side with the conservatives in cases such as Escobedo and Miranda, where the rights of accused criminals were involved...
...trial, Tempia's attorney duly objected that Miranda had voided his confession. Even so, the confession was admitted, and Tempia was sentenced to six months' hard labor, loss of pay, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge. In reversing his conviction, the Court of Military Appeals ruled that from now on G.I.s are entitled to free counsel before any questioning starts...
Despite the U.S. Constitution's guarantee against selfincrimination, the rule has long been followed in much of the U.S. Now the anachronism is under heavy fire. In Miranda v. Arizona last June, the Supreme Court held that confessions from persons in custody are inadmissible unless the suspect was clearly informed of his rights to silence and to counsel before being questioned. Can tacit admissions to the police survive that holding...