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Miranda is now in it's there a 50th Anniversary it was 1966 50 years ago and over the years psychologists have done a
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lot of research on Miranda comprehension and appreciation of those rights and people's willingness to invoke them and
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it is clear that there are certain classes of people that lack comprehension sufficient comprehension
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which is enough to make you wonder if they have a when they wave their rights is that a knowing and intelligent and
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voluntary waiver it's clear that kids for example young adolescents don't fully comprehend their rights and it's
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also clear that Miranda rights you think you know the wordage they vary from state to state to state and then there's
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another interesting fact there is a fifth prong I mean you have the right to remain silent anything you say can be
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used against you you have a right to an attorney if you can't afford an attorney
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will give you one those are the four everybody's familiar with when I ask lay people if you sign your waiver of
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Miranda rights they read you your rights say yeah I'm willing to talk and you sign your waiver
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if things start to get bad later can you reinvoke people don't know the answer to
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that question the answer is yes you can reinvoke your rights at any time that is
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embedded in the opinion itself I think the problematic issue with Miranda aside from once we get past
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people with limited abilities and and children the problem here is not that people don't comprehend those rights
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it's that people who are innocent don't think they need them they understand what the rights are they
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just don't think it applies to them because they didn't do anything wrong