Term Papers on Miranda Vs. The State Of Arizona

Term Paper Title	Miranda Vs. The State Of Arizona
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Miranda vs. the State of Arizona

     Such cases as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966) considered the rights of defendants in criminal cases and initiated a continuing debate on the rights of the individual in relation to the necessary powers of the government. The Miranda decision declared incriminating statements by a prisoner to be inadmissible as evidence when the prisoner had not been warned of his or her rights. In Harris v. New York (1971), however, the Court ruled that such evidence could be used by a prosecutor when a defendant chooses to testify. In Ginsberg v. New York (1968) and several other cases involving publications of an erotic nature, the Court sought to provide a legal definition of obscenity and to determine the role of moral censorship in society. In another 1968 decision the Court upheld the right of the police to stop and search suspect persons for weapons.
     Until Miranda, few people thought that it violated a suspects constitutional rights for the police to question the alleged without an attorney.  In fact, voluntary confessions, or self-incriminating facts, given by defendants were essential to a large percentage of convictions.  The effect of Miranda, dried up all voluntary confessions by immediately introducing defense attorneys into police investigation.
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