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By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D One of the guilty pleasures in my early days working in the same college town where I was a young officer was arresting criminal justice ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme court ruled Thursday that "Miranda rights" are not actually rights, but merely a method to avoid rights violations. Hence, individuals who have not been given ...

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 roots of the Miranda decision go back to March 2, 1963, when an 18-year-old Phoenix woman told police that she had been abducted, driven to the desert and raped.