Miranda v Arizona 384 US 436

Miranda v. Arizona was a landmark decision, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966), in the field of Criminal Procedure. In Miranda, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a set of specific rights for criminal defendants. The Miranda warning, named after Ernesto Miranda, one of the petitioners in the case, is a list of rights that a law enforcement officer must read to anyone arrested for a criminal act. But, ignored by many, and perhaps of greatest importance in today's legal confusion, is the important line in Miranda (found on page 21): "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them." The SCOTUS in Miranda defines forever the individual rights protection so desperately needed by Americans today in our ever increasingly onerous and out-of-control federal and state governments.