The Case Of Miranda V. Arizona

Ernesto Miranda was serving a 20-30 year sentence in 1963 and got paroled in 1975 and later got stabbed to death in a bar in 1976. Now almost everybody gets read their rights so this doesn’t happen again. The rights that are said to any accused person are called the Miranda rights. In the late 1960s is when Miranda started getting accused for his crime, that was when the U.S. had about half a million troops in Vietnam, the population exceeded 195 million, Stokely Carmichael took over at SNCC, the stonewall riots, and when native americans occupied Alcatraz. The famous case in the late 1960s was called Miranda v. Arizona.

The people that were involved in Miranda v. Arizona case were Ernesto Miranda and Twila Hoffman. Miranda never had to serve his 20-30 year sentence because he wasn’t read his rights, and Twila Hoffman just lived her life after the incident. Ernesto Miranda was accused of forcefully grabbing Twila Hoffman on the way to the bus stop to go home and kidnapped her and took her 20 minutes away and raped her and then he drove to another

In a 5-4 Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona in 1966 ruled that Ernesto Miranda is entitled to rights against self-discrimination and to an attorney under the 5th and 6th Amendments of the United States Constitution. At trial, the oral and written confessions were presented to the jury. Miranda was found guilty of kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to 20-30 years imprisonment on each count. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Arizona held that Miranda's constitutional rights were not violated in obtaining the confession. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled that the prosecution could not introduce Miranda's confession as evidence in a criminal trial because the police had failed to first inform Miranda of his right to an attorney and against