Miranda by Gary Stuart

Miranda by Gary Stuart

One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state's leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused's right to counsel and silence. Ernesto Miranda was an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 in connection with a series of sexual assaults, to which he confessed within hours. He was convicted not on the strength of eyewitness testimony or physical evidence but almost entirely because he had incriminated himself without knowing it-and without knowing that he didn't have to. Miranda's lawyers, John P. Frank and John F. Flynn, were among the most prominent in the state, and their work soon focused the entire country on the issue of their client's rights. A 1966 Supreme Court decision held that Miranda's rights had been violated and resulted in the now-famous Miranda warnings. Stuart personally knows many of the figures involved in Miranda, and here he unravels its complex history, revealing how the defense attorneys created the argument brought before the Court and analyzing the competing societal interests involved in the case. He considers Miranda's aftermath-not only the test cases and ongoing political and legal debate but also what happened to Ernesto Miranda. He then updates the story to the Supreme Court's 2000 Dickerson decision upholding Miranda and considers its implications for cases in the wake of 9/11 and the rights of suspected terrorists. Interviews with 24 individuals directly concerned with the decision-lawyers, judges, and police officers, as well as suspects, scholars, and ordinary citizens-offer observations on the case's impact on law enforcement and on the rights of the accused. Ten years after the decision in the case that bears his name, Ernesto Miranda was murdered in a knife fight at a Phoenix bar, and his suspected killer was Mirandized before confessing to the crime. Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent considers the legacy of that case and its fate in the twenty-first century as we face new challenges in the criminal justice system.

Gary L. Stuart is a lawyer, law professor, and author of eleven books, including The Gallup 14, a novel based on a notorious 1930s court case in New Mexico; Innocent Until Interrogated: The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four; Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent; and Anatomy of a Confession: The Debra Milke Case. He lives in Phoenix.

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ISBN 13	9780816527632
ISBN 10	0816527636
Title	Miranda
Author	Gary Stuart
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Arizona Press
Year published	2008-04-30
Number of pages	212
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