Monday 27 June 2011

The Miranda Warning: Ernesto Miranda, 1966




"You have the right to remain silent".  Ernesto was tried in 1963 for kidnapping and rape but won his famous appeal in 1966. h/t Ace of Spades


For a while, he made a living signing Miranda cards (small cards with the required saying printed on them) and selling them for $1.50. He had been out of prison for less than four years when he was killed in a bar fight in Phoenix in 1976 at the age of 36.

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