See the article in its original context from June 27, 2000 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The Supreme Court reaffirmed the Miranda decision today by a 7-to-2 vote that erased a shadow over one of the most famous rulings of modern times and acknowledged that the Miranda warnings ”have become part of our national culture.” The court said in an opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist that because the 1966 Miranda decision ”announced a constitutional rule,” a statute by which Congress had sought to overrule the decision was itself unconstitutional. Miranda had appeared to be in jeopardy, both because of that long-ignored but recently rediscovered law, by which Congress had tried to overrule Miranda 32 years ago, and because of the court’s perceived hostility to the original decision. The chief justice said, though, that the 1968 law, which replaced the Miranda warnings with a case-by-case test of whether a confession was voluntary, could be upheld only if the Supreme Court decided to overturn Miranda. But with Miranda having ”become embedded in routine police practice” without causing any measurable difficulty for prosecutors, there was no justification for… Read full this story
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