Articles Posted in confession

Professor Colin Miller has this useful reminder of the effects from Berghuis v. Thompkins. Say Anything?: Jeopardy Question About New Miranda Opinion Gets It Almost Completely Correct Last night’s episode of Jeopardy! featured the category “A Murder Investigation,” with The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick reading the clues. The $1000 clue in the category was: Getting confessions,…

New York Times has this good short piece about false confessions. New research shows how people who were apparently uninvolved in a crime could provide such a detailed account of what occurred, allowing prosecutors to claim that only the defendant could have committed the crime. An article by Professor Garrett draws on trial transcripts, recorded…

Carmen Miranda was a celebrated and successful actress from the 1940’s. She died 5 August 1955. And no she wasn’t auditioning to be co-counsel for LTC Lakin. Ernesto Arturo Miranda died on 31 January 1976, in prison. Although his notable case resulted in a new trial he was reconvicted. He died in a knife fight.…

Thanks to OpinoJuris for pointing us to the 11th Circuit decision in United States v. Frank. You will recollect that CAAF has found that the CP related statutes don’t apply overseas. Here is part of the OJ summary. The Eleventh Circuit upheld the conviction finding that (1) Miranda warnings were unnecessary; (2) the statute applied…

The court has decided Maryland v. Shatzer (background documents on SCOTUSWiki here ) and also Florida v. Powell (background documents on SCOTUSWiki here). Both cases relate to “Miranda” rights and confessions. In Powell, the issue was how much detail must go into a “Miranda” warning in order to be sufficient, in Shatzer the court addresses…