When someone is arrested and charged with a crime in New Jersey, police departments observe a protocol that includes the reading of Miranda Rights.The former Phoenix police detective on the early 1960s case that brought on the national use of the Miranda warning during arrests has died.
Eventually rising to the ranks of captain in the Police Department and retiring in 1979, Cooley was a detective in a 1963 rape case that led to the conviction of Ernesto Miranda. Though he was not under arrest, the rape victim and a robbery victim both picked Miranda in a police lineup. Miranda had a history of arrests, including attempted rape, and matched the suspect description in several of the Police Department’s unsolved crimes.“They accuse me of telling him what to write, which is absolute BS,” Cooley said in an interview.
Upon requests by the American Civil Liberties Union, a Phoenix-based law firm took Miranda’s case to the Supreme Court where in 1966 it became the lead among cases arguing violations to the Sixth Amendment. The constitutional amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a lawyer.In oral arguments, lawyer John J. Flynn argued police violated Miranda’s Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself.
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