On March 13, 1963, $8.00 was stolen from a bank cashiers pocket in Phoenix, Arizona. Police Suspected and arrested Ernest Miranda, who was never offered a lawyer, but confessed to the 8 dollar theft and the kidnapping and raping of an 18 year old woman. Based on his confession, he was sent to prison for 20 years.
His attorneys appealed to the U.S. Supreme court and on June 13, 1966, they decided to reverse the Arizona’s courts conviction and granted him a new trial in which his conviction couldn’t be used as evidence. That’s when the Miranda rights were established of persons who commit crimes or are accused of them. He was sentenced on the kidnapping and raping charges in which he served 11 years and was paroled in 1972.
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