New York's Loyalty to the Spirit of "Miranda": Simply the Best for Twenty-Five Years

Authors

Lorraine J. Adler

First Page

889

Abstract

The landmark Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, recognized a defendant's right to be informed of the rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause, including the right to counsel. The Miranda Court realized that a suspect may feel compelled to waive his Fifth Amendment privilege while in official detention. The Court held that the police must read the now-familiar warnings to a subject in custodial interrogation before he can waive his rights. Therefore, the Court in Miranda chose to strike the balance between effective law enforcement and protecting a subject's constitutional rights at the point of informing the subject of his rights, including his right to counsel, once he is under custodial interrogation. The crucial question then and now remains-how does a Fifth Amendment right to counsel protects a subject from this compulsion to confess?

Recommended Citation

Lorraine J. Adler, New York's Loyalty to the Spirit of "Miranda": Simply the Best for Twenty-Five Years, 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 889 (1994)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol47/iss3/7