Miranda rights

plural noun

US, law

: the legal rights of an arrested person to have an attorney and to refuse to answer questions

Examples of Miranda rights in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mangione’s comments to arresting officers and subsequent responses to questioning should also be disqualified as evidence, as Mangione was never told his Miranda rights, his lawyers wrote. —Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025

Her filing argues his statements to law enforcement were unconstitutional because he wasn't given his Miranda rights, and that any evidence from his backpack should be suppressed because it was obtained without a search warrant. —Alice Gainer, CBS News, 1 May 2025

Prior to interviewing him, detectives read him his Miranda rights. —Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025

The website states that Santana has supported legislation to provide a legal pathway to exoneration, ensure that youth have the opportunity to speak with an attorney before waiving their Miranda rights and ban deceptive and coercive practices in police interrogations in the state of New York. —Jared Gans, The Hill, 25 Feb. 2025

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Legal Definition

Miranda rights

noun plural

: the rights (as the right to remain silent, to have an attorney present, and to have an attorney appointed if indigent) of which an arresting officer must advise the person being arrested see also Miranda v. Arizona

Note: A reading of the Miranda rights usually includes a warning that anything said could be used as evidence. No statements made by an arrested person or evidence obtained therefrom may be introduced at trial unless the person was advised of or validly waived these rights. A fresh reading of the Miranda rights may be required by the passage of time after the initial reading, as for example if a previously silent person begins to speak or police interrogate a person more than once.

Etymology

from Miranda v. Arizona, the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling establishing such rights