PRECEDENT: Ernesto Miranda
Crime Junkie
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What Is a Miranda Warning?
The arrest and subsequent interrogation of an Arizona man changed everything about what can and can't be used against a person if they talk to the police without being made aware of their constitutional rights. Before there was a Miranda warning, there was Ernesto Miranda. And honestly what it stands for wasn't even that important in America's criminal justice system prior to the late 1960s.
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