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    ‘“You are an interrogator. That’s what you do. And you are what you do.’ You are what you do. Like an accusation.” (Cormier 68). In police interrogations, interrogators use many different techniques to get the suspect to confess to their crime. In the book The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier, there is a detective named Trent and he is one of the greatest interrogators and he never fails. Trent was trying to use different techniques to get Jason to confess to the crime, but he didn’t

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    Essay On Miranda Law

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    The current state of the Miranda law is as follows: Public safety opens a backdoor to the Miranda warning. If officers believe there is a threat to the safety of the public (for example, in New York v Quarles the gun the respondent used was hidden and could have been picked up by another assailant), they may ask questions before mirandizing the respondent. However, you must be able to prove the hidden weapon was a threat to public safety. Since this backdoor is narrow, an officer must distinguish

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    request. Commonly termed as to ‘Plead the fifth’ we have a privilege to protect ourselves from self-incrimination as any response from us can produce self-incriminating evidence. The Fifth amendment however, advises law enforcement officials to give Miranda warnings to educate and warn a suspect called for interrogation that he/she has the right to remain silent and anything that they say can be used against them and that they have a right to counsel an attorney .Further if they cannot afford an attorney

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    A photographic array is best defined as a grouping of photographs of people of similar appearance, including the suspect (Wasberg, 2009). The witness then must choose which individual they suspect to be the culprit of the crime. Using their memory, the witness must attempt to determine who they saw. That being said, these individuals are not simply guessing who committed the crime. When using a photographic array, individual rights are frequently questioned. Many believe that photographic arrays

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    in school while they are learning about their rights. Then how is someone going to know what they have the right to do while being in an arrested? Miranda v. Arizona was an important case in the U.S. history for a reason. Miranda v. Arizona does guarantee justice and maintains the liberty of everyone. Miranda v. Arizona was a case where Ernesto Miranda was accused of raping a women. At the time of his arrest he did not know his rights and that he had the right to remain silent and get a lawyer. He

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    . Another case that impacted the criminal justice system was the Miranda vs. Arizona, Thanks to countless movies and television shows these words evoke one of the most well known Supreme Courts decisions. This decision famously demands the police to give specific warnings to a suspects as a condition to custodial interrogation (Holland 1). It started when a 18 year old girl was forcibly grab by a man as she was walking towards the bus stop. The attacker dragged her into his car, tied her hands

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    Miranda V. Arizona

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    Miranda v. Arizona American Government This case is one that changed the way the United States Police forces will work forever. Every human in the world has natural born rights. Even people who have been arrested have rights, ‘The rights of the accused’. These rights are the main point of this court case. ‘On the third of March in 1963, an eighteen year old girl, “Lois Ann Jameson” (Sonneborn 6), was leaving Paramount Theaters in downtown Phoenix’ (Sonneborn 7). Jameson would always take the bus

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    Immunity in the U.S. Court Essay

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    to not self incriminate, is a fundamental right meant to protect individuals from being forced into giving evidence that could be used against one’s self. This concept against self incrimination extended to forced confessions due to Miranda v. Arizona. In the Miranda case, the Supreme Court decided that police have an obligation to inform a suspect to his rights under Constitution.

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    Court Case: Miranda v. Arizona ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: In the case Miranda vs. Arizona. This case goes against the 5th and 6th amendments. Miranda says that the police had violated his 5th Amendment right to remain silent and his 6th Amendment right to legal counsel. Miranda addressed the Escobedo rule which states evidence obtained from an illegally obtained confession is inadmissible

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    Miranda vs. Arizona:      This case had to do with an Ernest Miranda who raped a Patty McGee*. After extracting a written confession from the rapist about the situation, Miranda’s lawyer argued that it was not valid since the Phoenix Police Department failed to read Miranda his rights, also in violation of the Sixth Amendment which is the right to counsel. Some factors that helped support Miranda’s arguments were that the suspect had requested and been denied an opportunity

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