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Patrice Seibert Case Study

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In the year of 1966 the Supreme Court created the Sixth Amendment, due to an unfair trial in Arizona involving a man named Miranda. Miranda was arrested at his home and he taken into custody to the police station where he was identified by a complaining witness. He was then interrogated by two police officers for two hours, which resulted in a signed, written confession. At his trial, the oral and written confessions were presented to the jury. He was found guilty of kidnapping and rape and he was sentenced to 20-30 years of imprisonment on each count.
The Supreme Court had found that Miranda was violated of his constitutional rights as a citizen of the United States. The Supreme Court overturned his conviction, after that the State of Arizona …show more content…

Seibert case, was the conviction of Patrice Seibert, she was convicted of second degree murder for the death of 17 year old Donald Rector, who had died in a fire set in the mobile home where he lived with Seibert. Several days after the fire of the mobile home and the death of Donald, Seibert was interrogated by a police officer. The officer initially withheld her Miranda rights, hoping that he could get her to confess. Once she had confessed, the officer had taken a short break from questioning Seibert, and then he had read her Miranda rights and resumed to question her after she waived those rights. He prompted her to restate the confession that she had made earlier. Based on this second, Mirandized confession, Seibert was convicted. Seibert had appealed to the court that the officer’s intentional use of an un-Mirandized interrogation to get the initial confession made the later confession, though it occurred after she had waived her Miranda rights, inadmissible. The prosecution cited Oregon v. Elstad to argue that an initial, un-Mirandized confession did not make a defendant incapable of voluntarily waiving her Miranda rights and confessing later. The Supreme Court of Missouri agreed with Seibert, overturning the

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