Portal:Law/Biography/Week 07 2006
Ernesto Arturo Miranda ( b. March 9, 1941, Mesa, Arizona - d. January 31, 1976, Phoenix, Arizona) was a laborer whose conviction on rape charges based on his confession under police interrogation resulted in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case (Miranda v. Arizona). The Court ruled in that case that a police officer, upon arresting a person, must read him his rights to counsel and to remain silent, called a Miranda warning.