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To: Dog Gone
[State supreme courts may decline to follow bad U.S. Supreme Court precedents because those decisions bind only the parties to the particular case.]

Wow, so the Miranda Warning only applies to Ernesto Miranda?

The decision in Miranda applied only to Miranda. The precedent stemming from that decision applies only as far as courts continue to apply it.

8 posted on 01/16/2006 10:43:52 AM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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To: inquest

Yeah, there's those little things called stare decisis and res judicata that they teach in all law schools, except in Alabama it seems.


9 posted on 01/16/2006 10:50:47 AM PST by Dog Gone
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