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...Supreme Court's famous Miranda decision last June wrought vast changes in police procedure with its ruling that every defendant must be told of his post-arrest rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer present at his interrogation. But what of the principal defendant whose conviction the Court overturned...
Last week Ernesto Miranda was tried again in Arizona on the charge that he had kidnaped and raped an 18-year-old girl. His confession could not be used in evidence, since it had been thrown out by the Supreme Court. Neither could the identification testimony of the victim, since she admitted that she knew he had confessed when she fingered him. But there was still plenty of evidence left-the most damaging being the testimony of Miranda's common-law wife. "When I visited him in jail," she said, "he admitted to me that he had kidnaped...
...CARLOS MIRANDA...
...have made Danny (TIME cover, April 29) their "most hated person" because they resent the 1964 Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission (Escobedo v. Illinois) and set the stage for last June's decision to apply the rights of silence and counsel to all police interrogation (Miranda v. Arizona...
...vote of 5 to 2, the high state court rejected all her claims. Chief Judge Charles Desmond, no Miranda admirer, nonetheless hotly dissented on the ground that every other direct appeal (excluding certain property-rights cases) in the history of New York's top court, had always been "decided according to the law as we found it on the day of decision." "New York," he said, "should make Miranda retroactive in accordance with its own traditions...