CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rodney King, The Main Point, Convenience Store
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Problems post-miranda jail and was retried for raping mary and his robbery in 1971. was appealed and the decision was overturned and sent back to the district court. There were two aspects in the case. The latter was not appealed, but the lawyers obtained a retrial. He was convicted of the robbery charge and appealed the rape and was found. In both cases, his confession and line up evidence was not allowed. But this time, miranda"s common-law wife testified against him that three days. He asked his wife to visit mary and tell her he would marry her if she after he confessed, she visited him, and he repeated his confession. guilty. dropped the charges. Miranda"s lawyers argued that this evidence was inadmissible because she was his wife. The judge ruled this was only applicable in statutory marriages, and because they weren"t legally married the evidence was admissible.
