Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “You have the right to remain silent.” The phrase is among the most recognizable in American culture, repeated in police stations, ...

Lost against the predictable hubbub about the predictable Kagan nomination, Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that he will ask Congress to cut back on a decades-old constitutional ...

The front door of the New Mexico Supreme Court in Santa Fe in Feb. 2022. (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source NM) In a ruling Monday, the New Mexico Supreme Court rejected the challenges of two defendants ...

Nearly 60 years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart asked Attorney John J. Flynn, representing Ernesto Miranda before the court, what rights an accused should be advised of while in custody ...

Two interviews, no Miranda warning The Supreme Court considered two appeals, each of which featured a similar sequence of events. In the first case, a Boulder County jury convicted Adam Douglas ...

BOTTOM LINE: Where the defendant was properly given his Miranda warnings, this advisement was not vitiated or nullified by a detective’s answer to the defendant’s question about the scope of his ...

RACINE — Police officers testified Friday that they didn’t give the Miranda warning to a Racine man who told them “I killed my baby” and he couldn’t believe he “would do this to (his) baby” — even ...