Miranda's Waning Protections: Police Interrogation Practices after Dickerson | 
| Author: Welsh S. White
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Pages: 240
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ISBN: 0472089412
Dewey Decimal Number: 342
EAN: 9780472089413
ASIN: 0472089412
Publication Date: August 27, 2003
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Now available in paper, Welsh S. White's insightful examination of the effect of the Supreme Court's recent upholding of one of its most famous rulings
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Interrogation and "confession" revealed February 19, 2002
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Although Miranda's Waning Protections is written by a law professor whose primary audience is lawyers or law students, the book is surprisingly accessible to lay readers. The book describes how Miranda v. Arizona (1966) limited police interrogation practices, and how court decisions since then have watered down its original intent. Even for readers lacking a legal background, the account of how the Supreme Court tries to balance law enforcement's interest in obtaining confessions with protecting individuals against abusive interrogation practices is engaging and interesting. And, White explains why Miranda, as interpreted by the current Supreme Court, provides scant protection for individuals subjected to police interrogation.
Several parts of the book provide detailed accounts of police interrogations, the kinds of tactics police interrogators use, and
why these strategies sometimes lead to false confessions.
Some of these accounts, though horrifying, are fascinating reading. In Chapter 12, White provides excerpts from the taped interrogation of Peter Reilly, a teenager accused of murdering his mother, and his subsequent false confession. This really happens, though it happens to read like a TV script.
Chapter 7, "How modern interrogators have adapted to Miranda," shows police strategies that negate the effect of the Miranda warnings. White presents a stark and disturbing picture of exhausted suspects who are interrogated, and sometimes tortured, for hours without intermission. Mentally disabled suspects are tricked into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.
The author provides at least a sketch of some unforgettable
characters who participated in the struggle: Fred Inbau, who
fervently believed that the Interrogation Manuals he wrote for the
police would only result in truthful and fairly obtained confessions; Yale Kamisar, the law professor who eloquently defended the rights of suspects; and the "indefatigable" Paul Cassell who zealously sought to overturn Miranda.
After explaining the problems with Miranda and other cases
governing police interrogation practices, the author proposes some
sensible remedies. Perhaps the most interesting, in its simplicity, is a procedure under which most police interrogations would be video-taped so at least judges will be in a better position to determine whether or not the police have employed abusive practices to obtain a confession and whether the suspect's confession appears to be in fact truthful.
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