JUDGES INVENTED IT, THEY CAN LIMIT IT:

Justices uphold Florida's 'Miranda' warning (Jesse J. Holland, 2/23/10, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved Florida's version of the well-known "Miranda" rights warning, despite complaints that it wasn't clear a suspect could have a lawyer present during questioning.

The court's 7-2 decision restoring Kevin Dwayne Powell's conviction is the first of several it will make this year clarifying exactly what the long-established Miranda rights require police to do. [...]

[J]ustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the court's majority, said Powell was given enough information.

Though it would be better to dispose of the warning entirely.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2010 7:06 AM