court in reverse. conservatives used to castigate the liberal warren court as being activist. it issues dozens of rulings that enraged conservatives. history making decisions. some enhanced the rights of criminal defendants. the miranda decision. you have a right to a lawyer. there were also privacy rulings, on the right to use contraception, and to interracial marriages. all of it led to a collective shout from conservatives. impeach earl warren. when earl warren finally retired in 1969, conservatives believed they might finally get their chance to change the court. but it would be another 40 years, a long political battle for power and money, before the
it s may 17th, 1954, america has never been quite the same. it was a magna carta, it was the second emancipation. it was the beginning of the warren court. a revolutionary judicial era to change the fabric of american life. the court under earl warren just opened up america in so many different ways. it was in a sense today s court in reverse. conservatives used to cast them. it was enraging conservators. history-making decisions. some enhanced the rights of criminal defendants. the miranda decision, you have a right to a lawyer and a
some enhanced the rights of criminal defendants. the miranda decision. you have a right to a lawyer. you have a right to have a lawyer present when you re questioned. there were also privacy rulings. on the right to use contraception. and to interracial marriages. impeach earl warren! all of it led to a collective shout from conservatives. impeach earl warren! impeach earl warren. when earl warren finally retired in 1969, conservatives believed they might finally get their chance to change the court. but it would be another 40 years, a long political battle for power and money, before the right would get the court it dreamed of.
case that s caused by television. when i counsel my own clients as a matter of fact, one was asking me the same question they always ask. do you know what it is? hey, they didn t give me my miranda rights, is the charge going to be dismissed? people think you don t give miranda right, you have to dismiss the charges. that is not at all true. all the miranda decision says is that you have to be advised of your right to have a lawyer, and if you confess after that, that confession cannot be used if they didn t advise of your rights but you can be convicted on other evidence. there s a ton of other evidence in this case. i don t think the miranda argument is particularly important in the end. they ll convict him if he lives. and if they don t give him miranda warnings, maybe they ll get more information about if there are other individual involved in this conspiracy. do you think that s part of it? other individuals involved? as someone who s been in the situations before, how big a