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Supreme Court's Miranda Decision

The public's opinion

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- The Supreme Court Monday upheld its landmark Miranda ruling that requires police to warn suspects of their rights. A new Gallup poll finds widespread public support for the 1966 Miranda ruling. A whopping 94% of Americans say the police should be required to inform arrested persons of their constitutional rights, while only 6% disagree. At the same time, Americans are about evenly split over whether confessions obtained without informing defendants of their rights should be admissible in trial (45% say they should be while 49% say they should not be).

When the police arrest someone, do you think the police should or should not be required to inform that person of their constitutional rights?

  Yes, should be No, should not be No opinion
2000 Jun 22-25 94% 6 *

* Less than 0.5%

Do you think confessions obtained from defendants who were not read their constitutional rights when they were arrested should or should not be admissible in trial?

  Yes, should be No, should not be No opinion
2000 Jun 22-25 45% 49 6

Survey Methods
The results reported here are based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 1,021 adults, 18 years and older, conducted June 22-25, 2000. For results based on this sample, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.


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