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They put a passage into the Constitution that clearly wasn't in it.
IOW, they rewrote it.
Where in the Constitution does it say that cops must inform suspects of their rights?
Much of the Supreme Court's role is to interpret the Constitution as it applies to specific situations, policies or procedures. There is no way the Constitution could have included instructions for government with respect to how a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights is implicated in every situation.
Examples are everywhere but Citizens United comes immediately to mind. The Constitution doesn't explicitly state that corporations have a Constitutional right to be able to make political contributions. But the Supreme Court determined that the right of free speech applied to that situation and that corporations have the right to make political contributions.
You can argue about the reasoning of Miranda but that is a different discussion. The fact that the Constitution doesn't expressly require the rights be read is not a compelling argument since most of the rights we enjoy from the Constitution are based on interpretation rather than a bullet list of dos and don'ts.
They put a passage into the Constitution that clearly wasn't in it.
IOW, they rewrote it.
Where in the Constitution does it say that cops must inform suspects of their rights?
It didn't. However suspects always had the right to not self incriminate.
Miranda only explicitly informs suspects of their guaranteed rights at time of arrest. It doesn't change anything, so it's not a rewrite.
Suspects have always had a right to silence, they always had a right to sn attorney, the police would always use whatever evidence you supply against you.
So nothing's changed, you're just told everything you should already know.
From the Wikipedia page of "Ernesto Miranda": "Ernesto Arturo Miranda (March 9, 1941 – January 31, 1976) was a laborer whose conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges based on his confession under police interrogation was set aside in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-incrimination and their right to consult with an attorney before being questioned by police. This warning is known as a Miranda warning."
Rather abhorrent a convicted rapist was the basis for the Miranda warnings.
OP you should bow out of this. We understand you don't understand civics but you are coming off looking very bad in the thread. It is kind of sad.
TRANSLATION: I can't refute the fact that the Constitution contains no requirement for cops to explain suspects' right to them and so there is no such requirement. So I'll attack the messenger instead, try to prevent him from talking about it, and hope that somebody believes me somewhere instead.
How in the hell is a police officer in Jurisdiction A, State A supposed to know that a suspect has had their rights read to them two years ago by a police officer in Jurisdiction B, State B? If there is no arrest, there is no official record of the suspect being informed of their rights. I doubt Jurisdiction B, State B is sharing with police departments nationwide the fact that in 2016 they detained a person under suspicion for a crime but let that person go 20 minutes later because no crime had been committed by that person.
How about, in case a career criminal is apprehended, and somehow the police officer forgot to read him his Miranda rights... his testimony can't be thrown out of court if he was told his Miranda rights before. And shouldn't everyone already know their Miranda rights? In every crime show on tv, the criminals are told their rights. It should also be taught in high school too.
Anyway, my point was, that everyone should know their Miranda rights. And not being told them, shouldn't be grounds for throwing out confessions. We need to get tougher on criminals.
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