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AnotherMcIntosh

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4. It is as much of a reminder for the police as well as those taken into custody.

Reply to DirkGently (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 01:28 PM

Apr 2013

Police and other governmental officials have been coercing false confession for centuries.

Some of us are repelled by that.

The Miranda rule is not just for those who have been arrested.

The police verbalization of the rules of law identified in the Miranda rule are like a catechism. They are or should be also a reminder to the police of the laws that the police should remember and respect.

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Thurgood Marshall wrote a strong dissent in the Quarles case [View all] suffragette Apr 2013 OP

Interesting. ProSense Apr 2013 #1

Agree with you that he makes that point suffragette Apr 2013 #3

Well, yes. Miranda is a procedural protection against coercion. DirkGently Apr 2013 #2

It is as much of a reminder for the police as well as those taken into custody. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #4

I agree. That's part of what's "between the lines" in Miranda. DirkGently Apr 2013 #6

Neither answer seems like good policy to me either suffragette Apr 2013 #5