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A Constitutional law professor and lawyer, in 1963 Frank represented Ernesto Miranda for an appeal. Miranda had confessed to a rape charge and was sentenced to 20-30 years in prison. Frank argued that Miranda did not understand his rights under the Constitution and that his confession was coerced by the police. The Supreme Court agreed in 1966 and the "Miranda Rights" were born: police officers must now advise suspects of their rights before questioning -- "You have the right to remain silent," among others. (Miranda himself was retried, convicted, and again sentenced to 20-30 years, and was knifed to death in a bar fight shortly after he was released from prison.) "Miranda was a capstone to a vast cross-cultural pressure," Frank said in 1986, "that led to law enforcement in this country becoming more civilized." He died September 7 in Arizona from a heart attack. He was 84. From This is True for 8 September 2002 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Gary L. Stuart List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $14.00 Editorial Review: One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state’s leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused’s right to counsel and silence. Ernesto Miranda was an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 in connection with a series of sexual assaults, to which he confessed within hours. He was convicted not on the strength of eyewitness testimony or physical evidence but almost entirely because he had incriminated himself without knowing it—and without knowing that he didn’t have to. Miranda’s lawyers, John P. Frank and John F. Flynn, were among the most prominent in the state, and their work soon focused the entire country on the issue of their client’s rights. A 1966 Supreme Court decision held that Miranda’s rights had been violated and resulted in the now-famous "Miranda warnings." Stuart personally knows many of the figures involved in Miranda, and here he unravels its complex history, revealing how the defense attorneys created the argument brought before the Court and analyzing the competing societal interests involved in the case. He considers Miranda's aftermath—not only the test cases and ongoing political and legal debate but also what happened to Ernesto Miranda. He then updates the story to the Supreme Court’s 2000 Dickerson decision upholding Miranda and considers its implications for cases in the wake of 9/11 and the rights of suspected terrorists. Interviews with 24 individuals directly concerned with the decision—lawyers, judges, and police officers, as well as suspects, scholars, and ordinary citizens—offer observations on the case’s impact on law enforcement and on the rights of the accused. Ten years after the decision in the case that bears his name, Ernesto Miranda was murdered in a knife fight at a Phoenix bar, and his suspected killer was "Mirandized" before confessing to the crime. Miranda: The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent considers the legacy of that case and its fate in the twenty-first century as we face new challenges in the criminal justice system.  By: Miranda Pollard List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $24.00 Editorial Review: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed. Como hablar de sexualidad con los hijos/ How To Speak With Your Children Abou... By: Ines Miranda List Price: $10.95 Amazon Price: $9.31 Golota hizo lo correcto.(Andrew Golota, boxeador en una pelea)(TT: Golota did... 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