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To: grey_whiskers

You have exactly the same rights, regardless of Miranda being stated.

I agree with that ruling. After all, we have all heard it on TV for decades, so I would bet each of us already has it memorized, even if we’ve never read it, ourselves.

“You have the right to remain silent…”


64 posted on 06/23/2022 8:22:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I think the key, on consideration, is that someone in custody shooting off their mouth, is not being *compelled* to testify against themselves.

That makes sense.

The issue I have is the misuse of this by officers, counting on the accused being too scared, too poor, etc., to move to have the non-Mirandized statements in custody removed from the record; and then there’s the issue that if one goes for a reversal of a conviction, the courts can still find that on balance it is harmless error, that a conviction would have happened anyway.


86 posted on 06/23/2022 8:56:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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