LING 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Miranda Warning, Chocolate Cake, Implicature
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Miranda quiz answers: anything you say or do may be held against you in court. No but many defendants see this as an either or risk looking suspicious. Miranda ruling from 1956 states that it is impermissible to retract the 5th amendment. Although in practice, this does not usually happen. Only 12% of defendants realized this, even fewer college students know this. It"s a given that if you cannot pay for a lawyer, you will be appointed one, but is this. Yes, but a third of the miranda rights do not specify that the lawyer is free of charge. Many defendants assume that there is a hefty price-tag attached. If you are indigent and cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. is passive and according to linguists, infers a tenth grade reading skill. The police are wonderful people, but they are not telling you the truth in an interrogation room.
