Category: Miranda warning

SCOTUS: Failure to Read Miranda Rights Not Independent Ground to Sue Police

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on June 23 that police can’t be sued for failing to read an accused person his Miranda rights before moving forward with questioning. The court’s landmark 1966 ruling in Miranda v. Arizona generally prevents criminal courts from accepting as evidence against a criminal defendant any self-incriminating statement made by that…


Supreme Court Revisits Decades-Old Miranda Rights Precedent

The Supreme Court revisited its 56-year-old precedent, Miranda v. Arizona, at an April 20 hearing as justices and lawyers sparred over the extent to which the landmark decision protects criminal defendants and provides a basis for post-trial litigation by acquitted defendants. The specific issue in Vega v. Tekoh, court file 21-499, an appeal from the…