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On the morning of March 13, 1963, a twenty-three-year-old man named Ernesto Miranda was led into a small interrogation room at the Phoenix Police Department. Two hours later, he signed a confession. He did not know he could refuse. Three years later, the United States Supreme Court used his case to establish one of the most consequential rules in American legal history: before any custodial interrogation, police must tell suspects they have the right to remain silent, that anything they say can be used against them, and that they have the right to an attorney. Four sentences. Required in every interrogation room in America. Every time. Without exception. You Have the Right to Remain Silent tells the full story of how those four sentences came to be required - and what they have meant in the six decades since. From the crime itself to the Warren Court's landmark five-to-four decision, from the political backlash that followed to the decades of judicial decisions that have preserved, narrowed, and complicated Miranda's legacy, this is the definitive narrative account of the case that changed how America balances government power against individual rights. Reid Harlow traces the journey from a single interrogation room in Phoenix to the chambers of the Supreme Court, examining the man behind the case, the lawyers who argued it, the justices who decided it, and the ongoing legal battles that continue to define what Miranda actually protects - and what it doesn't. A landmark case. A four-sentence warning. A constitutional battle that never really ended.

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