Miranda

Joseph Miranda died a year ago next week, his head and neck crushed by a construction vehicle at his job at a Carroll County landscaping company. Five months ago, a state medical examiner urged that the case be further investigated, writing, "There is a strong possibility of a homicide." Today, however, authorities plan to meet with Adrienne Miranda to explain why they believe her 19-year-old son's death was an accident. That conclusion is not likely to satisfy the grieving mother, who says she is pained by what she sees as inconsistencies in witnesses' accounts of the incident.

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The Saturday schedule was slow, making my intention to spend time at the Father-Daughter Sweetheart Dance sponsored by the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks at the Kiwanis-Wallas Recreation center very doable. But from the start, things did not go easy. The 5 o'clock start time was incorrect. I walked in with an armload of gear, thinking I was early at 4:45, and found things in full swing. Guessing the room would be dark, I had planned on setting up two remotely fired flash units for light.

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration came to the defense yesterday of the Supreme Court's controversial 1966 Miranda decision, arguing that Congress had no power to tell courts to accept confessions by criminals who had not been given "Miranda warnings" about their rights.In a case that appears headed for the Supreme Court, the Justice Department asked the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., to reconsider and scuttle a ruling last month by three of its members. That decision said that under a 1968 law passed by Congress, voluntary confessions can be admitted in federal cases even if a Miranda warning was not given.

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration urged the Supreme Court yesterday to reopen the constitutional debate over "Miranda warnings" and to end the debate by reaffirming that requirement as binding on police.In a much-awaited legal brief filed last night at the court, with Attorney General Janet Reno adding her signature to it for emphasis, administration lawyers argued: "The Miranda decision should not be overruled."It added: "Miranda has proved workable in practice and is in many respects beneficial to law enforcement."

I HAVE A confession to make: I've been Mirandized more times than I can remember. Well, sort of. I've never actually been arrested or hauled down to a police station. But like virtually everyone else in America, I've been treated to the Miranda warning countless times on television. Its words are burned into my brain as indelibly as the lyrics of "Hey, Jude" or "The Star-Spangled Banner."Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, Dickerson vs. United States, that could result in the formal overruling of Miranda.

WASHINGTON -- "Miranda warnings" seem to have become a permanent fixture not only in daily police life but also in television and movie dramas. But that is not the way Antonin Scalia and Paul G. Cassell would have it, and they just might get their way.For years, Scalia, a Supreme Court justice, and Cassell, a University of Utah law professor and a one-time law clerk to Scalia on a lower court, have worked -- not in tandem, but in common purpose -- to...

THE 1966 MIRANDA decision requiring police to inform suspects that they have a right to remain silent was the centerpiece of the Warren court's "revolution in American criminal procedure" and a prime target of those who believed the courts had gone "soft" on crime.But most legal scholars long ago concluded that the time to overrule Miranda had come and gone. Recently, they were stunned by the news that the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., had ruled, against the express wishes of the U.S. Department of Justice, that a provision in a 1968 federal statute, in effect, overruled Miranda, the famed "you have a right to remain silent" Warren court decision now so familiar to everyone.

WASHINGTON -- A third of a century after ordering police to warn suspects about their rights, the Supreme Court agreed yesterday to reconsider its Miranda vs. Arizona ruling -- a move that raises the prospect of a momentous shift in the nation's criminal law.The justices' brief announcement, granting review of a Maryland man's appeal, immediately cast doubt on the future of one of the best-known and most controversial decisions the court has ever made on...

Here is an edited excerpt of an editorial from the Boston Globe, which was published Wednesday.The Supreme Court should back President Clinton's call to protect the Miranda rights of suspects. To some eyes, Miranda is an escape hatch for criminals.But this spin ignores a distinguished history. In 1966 the Supreme Court, in Miranda vs. Arizona, pointed to case law that has repeatedly endorsed the right, embodied in the Fifth Amendment, of individuals not to incriminate themselves.In 1968 Congress passed a law that muddied the issue.

WASHINGTON -Accused in a 2002 grenade blast that wounded two U.S. soldiers near an Afghan market, Mohammed Jawad was sent as a youth to Guantanamo Bay, where under orders by President Barack Obama, he could one day be among detainees whose fate is finally decided by a U.S. court. But in a potential problem, Pentagon officials note that most of the evidence against Jawad comes from his own admissions. And neither he nor any other Guantanamo detainee was ever told about their rights against self-incrimination under U.S. law. The Miranda warning, a fixture of American jurisprudence and staple of television cop shows, might also be one of a series of constitutional hurdles standing between Obama's order to close the island prison and court trials on the mainland.

A Baltimore County judge dismissed a $6 million lawsuit filed by the parents of a Baltimore County teenager who was fatally crushed in 2006 on the job at a landscaping company . Adrienne M. Miranda and Robert Miranda Sr. contended that the negligence of several law enforcement departments, prosecutors' offices and other state agencies to properly investigate the death inflicted "overwhelming mental distress and suffering" and "emotional grief, anguish and...

The Tempest opens with a storm at sea. Everyone on the ship is seemingly lost, but later, one after another, they all turn up on the same island. The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company shows what happens next in an enjoyable outdoor production running through July 13. The storm, the audience learns, was caused by a sorcerer named Prospero. Formerly Duke of Milan, Prospero was deposed years before by his evil brother Antonio, with the connivance of Alonso, king of Naples. With his infant daughter Miranda, he was sent to sea in a dilapidated ship.

Lin-Manuel Miranda might have grown up In the Heights, but his current address is on top of the world. Last night, the theatrical love song that Miranda penned to his childhood stomping grounds of Washington Heights won the 2008 Tony Award for best new musical. Miranda first began to work on his tale of the close-knit Manhattan neighborhood in 1999, when he was a sophomore at Wesleyan University. When the top Tony was announced, he was hoisted atop the shoulders of the members of the cast.

The parents of a Baltimore County teenager who died in 2006 on the job at a landscaping company have filed a $6 million lawsuit against several law enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices and the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health department for allegedly failing to properly investigate the death. Adrienne M. Miranda and Robert Miranda Sr. allege that the agencies' negligent behavior has inflicted "overwhelming mental distress and suffering" and "emotional grief, anguish and added despair."

What that mean? The grammar is poor; the English is either broken or Ebonics, depending on your perspective. The 13-year-old girl asked that question about the definition of what you or I might consider a pretty simple word. Justified. For defense attorney Jerry Tarud, the question was enough to convince him of one thing: If the girl didn't know the meaning of the word justified, how could she understand her Miranda rights? Tarud is a defense attorney for the girl. She was 13 on Dec. 4, the day Sarah Kreager was viciously attacked while riding a Maryland Transit Administration bus. Kreager was left with broken bones in her face.

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Joseph Miranda died a year ago next week, his head and neck crushed by a construction vehicle at his job at a Carroll County landscaping company. Five months ago, a state medical examiner urged that the case be further investigated, writing, "There is a strong possibility of a homicide." Today, however, authorities plan to meet with Adrienne Miranda to explain why they believe her 19-year-old son's death was an accident. That conclusion is not likely to satisfy the grieving mother, who says she is pained by what she sees as inconsistencies in witnesses' accounts of the incident.

The Saturday schedule was slow, making my intention to spend time at the Father-Daughter Sweetheart Dance sponsored by the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks at the Kiwanis-Wallas Recreation center very doable. But from the start, things did not go easy. The 5 o'clock start time was incorrect. I walked in with an armload of gear, thinking I was early at 4:45, and found things in full swing. Guessing the room would be dark, I had planned on setting up two remotely fired flash units for light.

Three teens were taken to area hospitals yesterday after their vehicle was hit by a CSX train at an intersection in Havre de Grace, police said. An initial investigation determined that the accident, which occurred about 12:30 p.m., happened after the vehicle inched too close to the tracks and was hit by the train, said Cpl. Neil Crouch of the Havre de Grace Police Department. The impact spun the vehicle 360 degrees, throwing at least one passenger from the vehicle. The passengers were described as two males and a female, ages 17 and 18, and their injuries were not considered life-threatening, Crouch said.