The nation’s high court will rule on a case that involves a health care worker who was questioned by law enforcement without being read his Miranda warning.
The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether or not police officers can face civil lawsuits if they fail to read Miranda warnings to suspects.
The case that the nation’s high court is weighing involves an incident in Los Angles which led to a suspect being questioned without hearing his rights. The outcome of this Supreme Court decision may answer a question that has gone unresolved for decades — are Miranda warnings a constitutional right?
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Vega is appealing a 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling that agreed that Tekoh’s constitutional rights had been violated. The lower court’s ruling said, in part: “The right of a criminal defendant against having an un-Mirandized statement introduced in the prosecution’s case in chief is indeed a right secured by the Constitution.”
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