{"id":150,"date":"2016-10-30T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-10-30T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T19:09:44","slug":"miranda-v-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/2016\/10\/30\/miranda-v-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda v Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Miranda v. Arizona (1966)<\/em>, Ernesto Miranda was arrested for kidnapping and raping a young woman near Phoenix, Arizona.\u00a0 He was questioned at the police station for two hours and confessed.\u00a0 During this time, there was no indication of any misconduct by police and Miranda never requested for an attorney.\u00a0 Following his confession, he was appointed an attorney, paid for by the government, because he was poor, he was found guilty and sent to jail for twenty to thirty years.\u00a0 Along with his confession, there was evidence against him which aided in his conviction.\u00a0 However, he was able to acquire new attorneys with defended him using a different approach.\u00a0 His attorneys argued that the \u201centire interrogation process is so inherently coercive that any individual will eventually break down\u201d(<i>Miranda v. Arizona,<\/i> 532) and advocated for the Court to add protections to protect one\u2019s right against self-incrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Reading this case reminds me of a scene in the movie <em>21 Jump Street<\/em><i>, <\/i>which I attached below<i>.\u00a0 <\/i>The main characters were beginning their careers as police officers and caught a drug criminal; however, they forgot to read the convict accused his miranda rights and had to release him.\u00a0 Although it is a fictional and comedic storyline, the scene showed the importance of these rights.\u00a0 If an officer forgot to state the miranda rights, all of the hard work they put in to enforcing the law would essentially be for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, there was, luckily, enough evidence to convict Miranda, even without his confession.\u00a0 It would be extremely frustrating if he was set free, even though he was obviously guilty.\u00a0 As a country which highly values individual\u2019s rights, I believe the miranda rights are extremely important to serve as a reminder; especially because those arrested tend to be less educated in the justice system.\u00a0 However, I think it seems extreme to have a confession or arrest completely thrown out because the criminal, who already has less rights being arrested, was not given this courtesy.\u00a0 In emergencies, one\u2019s rights are not required to be reminded to them, so it\u2019s interesting how vital it is that these are when being arrested.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miranda Rights Scene 21 Jump Street\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tA1kdJOWo5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Miranda v. Arizona (1966), Ernesto Miranda was arrested for kidnapping and raping a young woman near Phoenix, Arizona.\u00a0 He was questioned at the police station for two hours and confessed.\u00a0 During this time, there was no indication of any misconduct by police and Miranda never requested for an attorney.\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miranda-v-arizona","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fys-rca-bowie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}