Miranda V. Arizona Supreme Court Case In Phoenix, Arizona

In my court case in 1963 Ernesto Arturo Miranda is being accused of kidnapping, and raping. Miranda appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, saying that the police had gotten his confession unconstitutionally. The U.S Supreme Court review the case in 1966. Chief Justice Earl Warren, said that the confession could not be used as evidence because the evidence was gotten unconstitutionally. Miranda was not told that he had rights like the fifth and sixth amendment so he did not know, that is why the confession was not used as evidence. That is the reason why they made the Miranda rights so it would help the accused and now the police are required to inform the accused what rights he or she has.

In my case in Phoenix, Arizona on March, 1963 Ernesto

Without these warnings his statements were inadmissible. The mere fact that he signed a statement which contained a typed in clause stating that he had full knowledge of his legal rights does not approach the knowing and intelligent waiver required to relinquish constitutional rights.” In this quote warren is saying that we could see that Miranda didn’t have a lawyer during the interrogation and he is also saying that he was not given any warnings about the right he had. Patricia Weir the one accusing Miranda she said to the police that she worked in a theater and after the theater was closed she left and went walking to her bus stop. After that she headed to her house and while she was walking to her house a man kidnapped her. She said she begged the man to let her go but the man, in this case this man is Ernesto Miranda, dragged her to her car. Rape was becoming a big problem in Phoenix in the early 1960s. There were 152 rapes in the city the year Patricia was attacked, up to 20 percent from the year before and 33 percent from 1961, according to Liva Baker, the reporter who wrote a book on the Miranda’s