Miranda rights

In US law the Miranda rights are the legal requirements of reading the rights to a suspect before arrest and custody. They start with ‘you have the right to remain silent’ etc. So-called because of the case Miranda v Arizona in 1966, in which the rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda were held to be violated because his rights were not formally read to him prior to his arrest. Miranda’s case was dismissed but he was subsequently re-arrested, re-tried and found guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping and rape of a mentally handicapped young woman.