Miranda Rights Warnings to Change
Miranda Rights Warnings to Change
You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you're remaining silent. You have a right to a lawyer -- before, during and after questioning, even though the police don't have to tell you exactly when the lawyer can be with you. This year, the Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warnings. The rulings will change the ways police, lawyers and criminal suspects interact amid what experts call an attempt to pull back some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades. Law.com