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Supreme court backs youths' Miranda rights
- 06-16-2011
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Blog by Mark Walsh/Education Week
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday that a child's age can be a relevant factor when determining whether a juvenile suspect merits a Miranda warning about his rights against self-incrimination. The court ruled in the case of a North Carolina student who was 13 years old when police questioned him at school about a series of neighborhood thefts. They used his statements against him in court, where he was found delinquent. The question for the high court was whether the police must take age into account in determining whether the juvenile suspect is in custody, and thus entitled to the familiar warnings from the 1966 case of Miranda v. Arizona. (more...)
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