Miranda v. Arizona: Compare and Contrast
Miranda v. Arizona: Compare and Contrast
Arizona Supreme Court
Before the Miranda case became a nationwide attention-getter, it went through the normal progression of the U.S. court system: federal district court, then the court of appeals, and finally the U.S...
Vignera v. New York
Perceptive Shmoopers might notice that the Supreme Court case called Miranda v. Arizona actually includes three other cases. It's kind of like the court just lumped them all together since they dea...
Westover v. United States
This case is lumped in with the Miranda v. Arizona ruling, because it deals with similar Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights issues. A man named Carl Westover was arrested and questioned about robberi...
California v. Stewart
This is the last case within the Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court text. Roy Stewart was accused of a few purse-snatching robberies. He was interrogated nine different times, each time alone with th...
Escobedo v. Illinois
Let's face it—most people don't recognize Supreme Court case names and know what they were all about. But most people do see the results of these cases and recognize those. Escobedo v. Illinois i...
Gideon v. Wainwright
This was the case that made sure everyone—rich, poor, or in between—gets a lawyer. That's right: even if you can't afford to pay for some dude or dudette in a suit to come help you in prison, y...