Miranda1
/mɪˈrandə
/Astronomy
A satellite of Uranus, the eleventh closest to the planet, having a complex terrain of cratered areas and tracts of grooves and ridges, discovered in 1948 (diameter 480 km).
Origin
Named after the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Miranda2
/mɪˈrandə/adjective US Law
Denoting or relating to the duty of the police to inform a person taken into custody of their right to legal counsel and the right to remain silent under questioning: the patrolman read Lee his Miranda rights...
- Thus, before a military tribunal, a known terrorist could not walk because of a legal technicality, such as the arresting officer's failure to give him a Miranda warning.
- One of the ways in which the Court has developed the flexibility of Miranda in the years that followed the decision was to provide that the ‘fruits’ of a Miranda violation would not be excluded.
- If the police officer possessed enough evidence to place the suspect under arrest, the suspect would be given a Miranda warning that he or she had the right to remain silent.
Origin
1960s: from Miranda versus Arizona, the case that led to this ruling by the Supreme Court.
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