Miranda warning rights trimmed bit by bit by high court

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By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press / August 2, 2010

WASHINGTON
You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you're remaining silent.

You have a right to a lawyer — before, during and after questioning, even though the police don't have to tell you exactly when the lawyer can be with you. If you can't afford a lawyer, one will be provided to you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you, which, by the way, are only good for the next two weeks?

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.

The high court has made clear it's not going to eliminate the requirement that police officers give suspects a Miranda warning, so it is tinkering around the edges, said Jeffrey L. Fisher, co-chair of the amicus committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

"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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[WillParkinson]

1. Oh, please..everyone knows the court is...

Strict interpretations. There's no political ideology involved at all!

:sarcasm:

[sakabatou]

2. Oh for fucks sake...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Invoke them and then they will arrest your contempt of cop

AKA disorderly conduct or interfering with a police investigation.