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GOOBYE MIRANDA

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Goodbye Miranda. It was nice knowing you. You tried. But you just weren't up to the task. Police officers routinely walked around you. They said they read your rights when they didn't; or before reading your rights they made some implicit threats. It was all done during the pre-interview, when nothing was taped or recorded-and anything goes-and usually did. And along the way, boy did you get some bad press. Just about any two-bit crime Hollywood movie or TV movie of the week usually started with a monster of a criminal being released from prison because some befuddled officer forgot to read you. Those of us who practiced law knew that wasn't the law, but that didn't stop you from being portrayed as some society destroying monster bent on releasing everyone from prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).