Miranda Rights Case

Miranda Rights Ernesto Miranda kidnapped a woman, drove her into the desert, and raped her. After an 11 day investigation, Detectives Cooley and Young caught Miranda and took him to the police station for questioning. During Miranda’s interrogation, he was told he had been positively identified in a lineup and that he would not be released without a full confession. Miranda wrote out his confession on a paper with a preprinted statement indicating he knew his Constitutional rights and was voluntarily confessing. He was charged with rape and kidnapping in the first degree due to the 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v Wainwright (right to an attorney free of charge), the court appointed him public defender Alvin Moore. Prosecutor Lawrence Turoff built a case around Miranda’s confession. Moore’s defense focused on Miranda’s unawareness to his legal right to an attorney during questioning, claiming his confession was involuntary. Turoff tried to present the confession to the jury, Moore objected because of involuntary nature of the confession. Judge Yale McFate overruled his objection …show more content…
It showed the growing liberal movement, granting more power to citizens and less to government, signifying the human rights importance of the era. There is no doubt that the new system maintains the idea of “innocent until proven guilty,” guaranteeing only the guilty are imprisoned. The 1966 case Miranda v Arizona proved the American understanding of justice and equality while emphasizing issues between balance of rights and the shift of the justice system to treat everyone equally regardless of law education, money, or race. It was able to achieve such a vast impact because of the Warren Court and has continued to play a crucial role defining the American Justice system as a system in which citizen’s rights are held above all