the supreme court decided the case miranda vs. arizona on april 25, 2012.
the supreme court decided the case miranda vs. arizona on april 25, 2012.
when did the supreme court decide the case miranda vs. arizona?
april 25, 2012
bullet::::- the u.s. supreme court makes a 6–3 decision that law enforcement officials do not need to issue miranda warnings to prison inmates under questioning if these inmates are warned that they may end the interrogation at any time. the ruling involves an inmate who was removed from the general prison population and questioned. the court ruled against convict randall fields in a dispute that questioning without miranda invocation was proper as long as the convict was advised of his freedom to leave. the opinion of the court was written by associate justice samuel alito who said that "the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that our precedents clearly establish that a prisoner is in custody within the meaning of miranda v. arizona, 384 u. s. 436 (1966), if the prisoner is taken aside and questioned about events that occurred outside the prison walls. our decisions, however, do not clearly establish such a rule, and therefore the court of appeals erred inholding that this rule provides a permissible basis for federal habeas relief under the relevant provision of the antiterrorism and effective death penalty act of 1996(aedpa), 28 u. s. c. §2254(d)(1). indeed, the rule applied by the court below does not represent a correct interpretation of our miranda case law. we therefore reverse."
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corcoran started his legal career at reid & priest in new york city. corcoran moved to phoenix and joined the law firm of lewis & roca in 1959. a few years later, corcoran joined the maricopa county attorney's office as a criminal prosecutor, where he worked from 1962 to 1964. he later joined the firm of dushoff & sacks, which eventually became dushoff, sacks & corcoran. while a partner there, corcoran served as arizona counsel to the american civil liberties union. in 1965, corcoran was an initial attorney on the landmark constitutional law case miranda vs. arizona. as a result of his efforts in the miranda case, corcoran received the aclu civil libertarian of the year award. corcoran joined the firm powers, boutell, fannin & kurn in 1973. he left private practice in 1976 and was appointed to the maricopa county superior court under arizona's recently enacted merit selection system. he served on superior court for five years, until he was appointed to the arizona court of appeals in 1981, where he served for seven years.
robert j. corcoran