udge would then use his or her own judgment to decide if the confession was voluntary or coerced. The problem with this is that there is no was to be consistent. No two cases are the same and the judgment of the different judges in regards to different cases can never be the same. The in the U.S. is generally very black and white but by allowing judgment on something such as a confession was very gray. Another problem with this method of decision was that there was infinite room for appeal. The Supreme Court had no means in which to h!
ear the growing number of appeals on this issue. Thus, the Supreme Court needed something more concrete.
In 1965 Ernesto Miranda was charged with the kidnapping and rape of a
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