Monday, August 2, 2010

Miranda warning rights trimmed bit by bit by high court.

Miranda warning rights trimmed bit by bit by high court.

Miranda warning rights have been turned 'upside down,' according to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

 The Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warning this year. The rulings will change the ways police, lawyers and criminal suspects interact amid what experts call an attempt to pull back some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades.

The Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warnings this year. The rulings will change the ways police, lawyers and criminal suspects interact amid what experts call an attempt to pull back some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades."It's death by a thousand cuts," Fisher said. "For the past 20-25 years, as the court has turned more conservative on law and order issues, it has been whittling away at Miranda and doing everything it can to ease the admissibility of confessions that police wriggle out of suspects.

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