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Posted on 07/14/2003 9:39:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:52:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A young man's confession that led to his murder conviction was given involuntarily, in violation of his Miranda rights, and should have been deemed inadmissible, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Kenneth Ray Neal's confession to murder should have been prohibited because he was badgered by a detective from the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, the state's high court said, reversing Neal's conviction. His nine requests to speak with a lawyer before the confessions had also been rebuffed.
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Let's keep the Dem's on the run!
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While this case is a poor example to use to illustrate why Miranda is important, Miranda is one of the few reasons people like lawyers, not hate them. Next time you get arrested for driving 56 in a 55, I bet you would prefer that the police not have the power to jail you for 30 days and torture you until you confess to some murder they haven't been able to solve.
Note also that this guy will not go free. He will remain incarcerated on a charge of murder while the state retries the case without the confession.
You may find this link informative on why Miranda is important. Again, the above is a bad example, but in a number of cases, false confessions have been beaten out of people.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes/falseconfessions.php
Sorry, here it is with the proper link.
You may find this link informative on why Miranda is important. Again, the above is a bad example, but in a number of cases, false confessions have been beaten out of people.
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