Case Study Of Miranda V. Arizona

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1/ Miranda v Arizona – Decision No 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602 (1966)
1) On March 13,1963, Ernesto Miranda was found guilty for kidnapping and sexual assault. He was arrested inside of his home. He was taken into custody at Phoenix police station and put into an interrogation room where he was questioned by two police officers. The police officers told Miranda that he was not obligated to have an attorney present. After two hours of being in custody he signed a statement admitting that he knows the full knowledge of his right and anything from the statement can be used against him. His statement went to a jury at his trial where he was found guilty and was sentenced to prison. The Arizona supreme court did not think that Miranda’s rights were …show more content…

These mandatory "Miranda Rights" begin with "you have the right to remain silent, anything said can and will be used against you in a court of law." The police are to enforce this and inform the suspect of his or her right to an attorney and allow for a defendant's attorney to accompany them during interrogations. If they can't afford an attorney, the court must assign one to them. These are the rights denied to Miranda when he signed a statement and confessed, illegally admitting him to …show more content…

483 (1954)
1) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas school board was by Oliver Brown, one of the parent of a children that was denied access to the Topeka's white schools. Brown claimed that Topeka's white school segregated and violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the black and white schools were not equal to each other. The federal district court dismissed his case because they thought the public schools were mainly equal to be constitutional.
2) The Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal." This quote created equality among men and women in the United State of America is the very first process of judicial process in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Even after the equal rights of the 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) were being violated.The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the

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