I choose to do my research paper on Miranda vs. Arizona case. Why I choose to write about the Miranda vs. Arizona is because in we are learning it in the class, so I wanted to do a little research on it. For example how Ernesto Miranda was brought up, what really happened in details and what went wrong that made a change in American justice. I knew little about the Miranda case, but didn't know much and I were eager to know more about Miranda vs. Arizona.
             Phoenix, Arizona, 1963 Ernesto Miranda was a poor Mexican immigrant living in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1963. Miranda was arrested after a crime victim identified him in a police lineup. Miranda was charged with rape and kidnapping and interrogated for two hours while in police custody. The police officers questioning him did not inform him of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, or of his Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of an attorney. When Ernest Miranda went with police to their headquarters, it wasn't the first time he had been in police custody. He had been in trouble from the time he was in grade school in Mesa, Arizona, shortly after his mother died and his father remarried. Ernest and his father didn't get along very well, and the boy kept his distance from his brothers and step-mother, as well. He was a chronic truant, and had his first criminal conviction when he was in 8th grade. The following year, Miranda was arrested and convicted of burglary, and sentenced to a year in reform school. Ernest felt that a change of scenery would do him some good, so after he was released from the reformatory, he headed west to Los Angeles. A geographic cure didn't work, and within months he had been arrested on suspicion of armed robbery – he was not convicted – as well as some minor sex offenses including being caught in the act of being a peeping Tom. After his arrest and two-and-a-half month detention on the armed robbery charg...