Miranda rights
plural noun
US, law
: the legal rights of an arrested person to have an attorney and to refuse to answer questions
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Police told McClatchy News that Beck chose to exercise his Miranda rights and not make a statement.
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Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
On Easter eve, Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) hawking his latest product: a $60 Bible which includes not only the Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance, but Miranda rights.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Jarvis read Ward her Miranda rights before interviewing her, according to the report.
—The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
Acree appeared in person at 3 p.m. and was read his Miranda rights.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
At a court appearance Thursday, Whelpley’s attorneys argued his Fifth Amendment rights were violated when police spoke to him for seven hours at his Mounds View, Minnesota, home without reading him his Miranda rights.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
But attorneys for the state had argued Tellefsen’s testimony was an appropriate rebuttal to defense expert Michael O’Connell, who testified that Negroponte didn’t have a meaningful understanding of her Miranda rights because she was intoxicated.
—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
Comanche was taken into custody last week in Sacramento before being read his Miranda rights, speaking to Las Vegas police detectives and explaining the plot, the affidavit said.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Despite pleadings by her attorney — this was the girl’s first offense, she’d been questioned by police without a parent or guardian present and was never read her Miranda rights — the judge granted the transfer.
—Meribah Knight, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2023
Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
On Easter eve, Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) hawking his latest product: a $60 Bible which includes not only the Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance, but Miranda rights.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Jarvis read Ward her Miranda rights before interviewing her, according to the report.
—The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
Acree appeared in person at 3 p.m. and was read his Miranda rights.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
At a court appearance Thursday, Whelpley’s attorneys argued his Fifth Amendment rights were violated when police spoke to him for seven hours at his Mounds View, Minnesota, home without reading him his Miranda rights.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
But attorneys for the state had argued Tellefsen’s testimony was an appropriate rebuttal to defense expert Michael O’Connell, who testified that Negroponte didn’t have a meaningful understanding of her Miranda rights because she was intoxicated.
—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
Comanche was taken into custody last week in Sacramento before being read his Miranda rights, speaking to Las Vegas police detectives and explaining the plot, the affidavit said.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Despite pleadings by her attorney — this was the girl’s first offense, she’d been questioned by police without a parent or guardian present and was never read her Miranda rights — the judge granted the transfer.
—Meribah Knight, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2023
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