Miranda V. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona
American Government
This case is one that changed the way the United States Police forces will work forever. Every human in the world has natural born rights. Even people who have been arrested have rights, ‘The rights of the accused’. These rights are the main point of this court case.
‘On the third of March in 1963, an eighteen year old girl, “Lois Ann Jameson” (Sonneborn 6), was leaving Paramount Theaters in downtown Phoenix’ (Sonneborn 7). Jameson would always take the bus home and have to walk a short distance to her home. On this night, she would be walking home and a car pulled up past her nearly hitting her. She continued walking not realizing that a man had gotten out and was running towards her. He grabbed her around the waist and covered her mouth, taking her back to his car. The assailant then tied her by her hands and feet and proceeded to drive into the desert. The man later stopped the car, got into the back seat, undressed Lois, and raped her. After that he then drove her back into her neighborhood and dropped her off a few houses down from her home. As she left he said, ‘Whether you tell your mother or not is none of my business, but pray for me,’ (Sonneborn 7).
Lois ran to door banging and screaming, her sister answered the door and Lois tells her what has been done to her. Sarah, her sister, called the police and at 2:08 am an officer arrived. Lois described the assailant as the following, “He was a Mexican man about twenty-seven or twenty-eight with a slight build. He was unshaven and was wearing glasses, jeans, and a t-shirt,” (Sonneborn 8). The next day, the police had her look at a line up of five possible men. But, none of them were her attacker. A polygraph test was done on Lois to se if she was telling the truth, but it was inconclusive.
After she had been raped, Lois was terrified to walk home alone again. So her brother-in-law said he would walk her home every night. On March 9th, a week later, he was waiting for her
American Government
This case is one that changed the way the United States Police forces will work forever. Every human in the world has natural born rights. Even people who have been arrested have rights, ‘The rights of the accused’. These rights are the main point of this court case.
‘On the third of March in 1963, an eighteen year old girl, “Lois Ann Jameson” (Sonneborn 6), was leaving Paramount Theaters in downtown Phoenix’ (Sonneborn 7). Jameson would always take the bus home and have to walk a short distance to her home. On this night, she would be walking home and a car pulled up past her nearly hitting her. She continued walking not realizing that a man had gotten out and was running towards her. He grabbed her around the waist and covered her mouth, taking her back to his car. The assailant then tied her by her hands and feet and proceeded to drive into the desert. The man later stopped the car, got into the back seat, undressed Lois, and raped her. After that he then drove her back into her neighborhood and dropped her off a few houses down from her home. As she left he said, ‘Whether you tell your mother or not is none of my business, but pray for me,’ (Sonneborn 7).
Lois ran to door banging and screaming, her sister answered the door and Lois tells her what has been done to her. Sarah, her sister, called the police and at 2:08 am an officer arrived. Lois described the assailant as the following, “He was a Mexican man about twenty-seven or twenty-eight with a slight build. He was unshaven and was wearing glasses, jeans, and a t-shirt,” (Sonneborn 8). The next day, the police had her look at a line up of five possible men. But, none of them were her attacker. A polygraph test was done on Lois to se if she was telling the truth, but it was inconclusive.
After she had been raped, Lois was terrified to walk home alone again. So her brother-in-law said he would walk her home every night. On March 9th, a week later, he was waiting for her