Mid-week Legal Roundup

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Miranda Rights in the News  But, what do you know about Miranda, the man?

In March 1963, Ernesto Arturo Miranda was arrested for robbery and then confessed to raping an 18 year old woman two days previously. At trial, prosecutors offered his confession as evidence and he was convicted and sentenced to 20 to 30 years imprisonment.  The conviction was overturned when the Supreme Court ruled that "no confession could be admissible under the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause and [the] Sixth Amendment right to an attorney unless a suspect had been made aware of his rights and the suspect waived them."

Miranda was retried, and  the prosecution did not use the confession but called witnesses and used other evidence. Miranda was convicted in 1967 and sentenced to serve 20 to 30 years. He was paroled in 1972. After his release, he returned to his old neighborhood and made a modest living autographing police officers' "Miranda cards" (containing the text of the warning, for reading to arrestees).

In 1976, Miranda was stabbed to death during an argument in a bar.

(The above is from Wikipedia. Read more about Miranda v. Arizona here.)

This is not the first ATM fee lawsuit

Earlier this week, Bar-tender posted an entry about an ATM fee lawsuit against Amcore Bank.  A similar case was filed in late October.  Read more about ATM fee fraud at Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog.

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