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Shocking Rescue: Lost Man Chops Down Power Pole

(June 1) -- Let's say you get lost in a vast expanse of wilderness. Your chances of someone randomly stumbling upon you are less than 1 percent. You feel completely hopeless about the prospect of ever making it out of there without becoming bear food when -- lo and behold -- suddenly you spot a power line pole. In your...

High Court: Suspects Must Say They Want to Be Silent

WASHINGTON (June 1) -- Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up. In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday - over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned...

Background on Miranda rights

The Miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights) is a warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.

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