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  • June 28, 2000 EDITORIAL Miranda Rights Should Never Have Been An Issue in the First Place Why not just hire retired KGB? WESTERN 5 CAROLINIAN By Seth R. Sams Editor-in-Chief Some time ago, in Arizona, a very young delinquent turned the legal scene in America around. In 1963, Ernest Miranda was arrested by Phoenix police for the rape and kidnapping of an 18-year old girl who was mildly retarded. After signing a confession, being convicted, and then appealing his case, Miranda s case went before the supreme court with three other cases. In 1966, the Supreme Court made the decision that all law enforcement in America must read the Miranda Rights to suspects that they arrest with intent to interrogate. As of late, the Miranda Rights have been called a "pointless bureaucratic procedure" that lets too many crooks off the hook on technicalities. Yeah, technicalities like when the rights aren't read prior to arrest! But that's not a technicality, that would be called a goof up on the part of the people who walked on his rights. To call the Miranda Rights a "bureaucratic procedure," and to call that procedure "pointless" is to say that the 5th Amendment has no real bearing on how suspects will be treated during questioning or during arrests. No Amendment or right in the constitution should be considered pointless, and certainly not the 5th Amendment. This is what gives everyone safe haven from corrupt questioning or from being coerced into testifying against themselves. You call that pointless? The fact is, though, that you can be arrested without having your rights read. This is because the rights are to protect suspects from themselves during question ing. In other words, it's to make sure you know that they know that you don't have to say .... Aside from the reason Miranda Rights are here, most American citizens sleep a little better knowing that simply because they live in this great land, that they can't be arrested without being assured by the cops that they will be fairly represented, no matter what they are charged A police officer can actually arrest you, handcuff you, and put you in his car without saying a word, right in the middle of downtown America. It's their right. with. Imagine the wake-up call most or us get when we find out that that's not true. A police officer can actually arrest you, handcuff you, and put you in his car without saying a word, right in the middle of downtown America. It's their right. It is their right to physically restrain you with cold steel around your wrists like a caged animal, and put vou in the back of their car like a little kid trouble maker, and they don't have to say a thing to you. Why? Because they don't plan on interrogating you. But shouldn't any citizen be told by any arresting officer, who is arresting an individual for ANY reason, that they can see an attorney, that they will be represented, and that they don't legally have to say anything without talking to a third party first? ' 'Carol'in i AJ* Phone: 227-7267 • Fax: 227-7043 • e-mail: carolinian^wcu.edu PO Box 66 • Cullowhee NC • 28723 Seth R. Sams. Editor-in-Chief Alex l-Ainon, Managing Editor Daniel Hooker, Sports Editor Dawn Pasley, News Editor Samantha Helms, Asst. News Editor Hollv Rhodarmer. Features Editor Nichole Hardy, Web Editor Laura Hyatt, Advertising Manager Javier Arvelo, Copy Editor/Asst. Ad Manage Contributing Writers [enfti Bands, Robert Brown, Hannah Crane, Virginia Culp, Craig Day, Brett Knight. Michael Lewis, / Daniel Menestres. Denise Merrirt, Johnnie Mickel, Mike Boston, Man Rogers, Annie Sechrisi I |ohn Moore, Adviser Shouldn't they be told why they've been treated this way? Think about this carefully. Shouldn't Miranda Rights, or some kind of disclaimer, be given to every American citizen arrested anywhere? If not for the suspect then simply for the protection of the police themselves. All aspects of society are or have )een at some point corrupted, ^aw enforcement is certainly no exception and should protect themselves from being accused of corruption by respecting everyone's rights, especially when arresting them. If we're not going to let Eeople know that they won't e hurt, coerced or left to the mercy of the system, alone, then we may as well hire retired KGB. They're used to arresting people with no concern for their rights. They certainly won't read anyone their rights, whether they're questioning them or not. The recent debate obviously had good reasoning be- hindit. Police work hard to catch real criminals, and the system does let a lot go on technicalities. But we can't forget, that there are innocent people out there, and when this debate went before the Supreme Court again on June 26, a vote of 7-2 upheld the use of the Miranda Rights. The goal of the police is to protect innocent people from people who don't care about others' rights, but this must not be done at any time at the expense of innocent people's rignts. The Miranda Rights help to do this, as long as your being interrogated, of course. In a bit of irony, Miranda served 11 years in prison despite his fight for his rights, because he was indeed guilty of robbing someone else of their rights. He was killed years later in a barroom brawl. The suspect in Miranda's murder was arrested, and then released and all charges dropped. He had been questioned about Miranda's killing, but never read his rights. No one was ever convicted of Miranda's murder. Be a part of an open forum every week, with professors, other students, and other readers from the community. Write letters to the Editor. The Submitting Letters to the Editor The Carolinian welcomes letters from its readers. Letters printed contain the expressions and values of their authors. The Western Carolinian reserves the right to refuse publication of letters containing defamatory statements or obscenities. All entries must be signed (first and last name) and no longer than 250 words.
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