The Supreme Court will soon decide a Fifth Amendment-related case over whether a person accused of a crime can seek relief if a law enforcement officer failed to recite Miranda warnings, the Washington Examiner reported.
Justices on Wednesday heard arguments in the case Vega v. Tekoh, which calls to question whether a person may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer “simply on an officer’s failure to provide the warnings prescribed” in Miranda v. Arizona, the landmark 1966 decision that protects the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The case surrounds a procedural dispute stemming from a law enforcement officer’s failure to recite Miranda warnings to a California hospital worker, Terence Tekoh, who was accused of sexually assaulting a patient in 2014.
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