Miranda warning
Sign in to saveAlso known as reading rights, Miranda rights, reading your rights, right to remain silent, the Reding rights
notification given by American police to criminal suspects in police custody advising them of their rights, or similar procedure in other jurisdictions
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- message
- Subclass of
- sequence
- Part of
- criminal procedure
- Named after
- Viviane Reding
- Official name
- Miranda warning
- Based on
- right to counsel
- Main subject
- subjective right
Show 1 more fact
- applies to jurisdiction
- European Union
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Page of the manuscript written by Chief Justice Earl Warren regarding the Miranda v. Arizona decision. This page established the basic requirements of the "Miranda warning".
In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials. Named for the U.S. Supreme Court's 1966 decision Miranda v. Arizona, these rights are often referred to as Miranda rights. The purpose of such notification is to preserve the admissibility of their statements made during custodial interrogation in later criminal proceedings. The idea came from law professor Yale Kamisar, who subsequently was dubbed "the father of Miranda."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miranda warning” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.