Saturday 30 October 2004
Justin: Interesting Wikipedia entry about the Miranda rights... you know the score: "you have the right to remain silent..." etc
Marcus:
I like it that Miranda was originally convicted on the shaky basis of a confession and nothing else, and when that got overturned they had to use boring old witnesses etc. It's sort of like a Hollywood movie - man is convicted and eventually conviction is overturned by heroic lawyers - only without the happy ending (man was guilty all along but prosecution was a bit lazy).
