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Fla. Scrambles to Change Miranda Warnings
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Sep 05, 2005 03:24am |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, September 5, 2005 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
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By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Gorman Roberts' manslaughter conviction was overturned because of a single word. Roberts, now 20, was convicted of pushing 5-year-old Jordan Payne in February 2002 into a Pompano Beach canal, where he drowned. But his conviction and three-year prison sentence were thrown out in May 2004 when an appeals court ruled the Miranda rights warning he got from Broward Sheriff's Office investigators was incomplete.
The warning, which said suspects "have the right to talk with a lawyer and have a lawyer present before any questioning," failed to spell out that defendants also had the right to an attorney "during" police interrogation as well. It was corrected in November 2002.
Since then, more than two dozen other Broward County cases — including murders, robberies and illegal drugs — have been affected because of the faulty Miranda warnings. Convictions have been reversed in some, defendant statements suppressed in others. |
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