Miranda V. Arizona Supreme Court Cases

In the early 1960’s four men were arrested on different crimes.. In the police department those men confessed to their crimes without ever being told their rights, mainly that the Fifth Amendment Sixth Amendment. The confessions were used in court, and it became a question of whether those men’s constitutional rights had been violated. The question was answered in the Supreme Court case of Miranda v. Arizona. The Fifth Amendment was written for rights in criminal and civil legal issues. In the Fifth Amendment, it says that a person does not have to be a witness against himself, otherwise known as “self-incrimination” (Cornell 5). The Sixth Amendment was written for rights for criminal defendants. The Sixth Amendment states that a defendant has the right to a attorney (Cornell 6). Both of these Amendments were made unaware of to …show more content…
He dropped out of school in the eighth grade. He had a young infant daughter (Marico). Miranda was a young 23 year old man. He worked nights as a driver and as a warehouseman, and soon after he was hired, he was linked to purse snatchings in the downtown area (Marico). Miranda did not have a good youth in hat he was accused of attempted rape of a married woman, and he was dishonorably discharged from the Army for spying on naked women (Marico). On top of all that he spent time in prison for “transporting stolen vehicles across state lines” (Marico). It is easy to say that Ernesto Miranda was not a perfect citizen. With his many tattoos, dark-curly hair and black rimmed glasses, Miranda was not hard to pick