Courts Revisit Miranda Warnings, Possible Re-write
A Florida Supreme Court is looking over the famous Miranda warnings this week in order to ensure that officers of the law explicitly state that criminal suspects can have lawyer present ruing interrogations. The Miranda laws currently state that criminals have the ability to have a lawyer present but in what capacity and during what [...]
Supreme Court Hears Prisoner’s Bid for Lawyer
The Supreme Court’s new term was opened on Monday by raising the question of how long a prisoner’s request for a lawyer should be valid – in terms of years. The Supreme Court reviewed a recent defense that police should not be allowed to question a prisoner with no lawyer present who had requested a [...]