Supreme Court Modifies Miranda Warnings

The Supreme Court has modified the rules surrounding Miranda warnings:

WASHINGTON – Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up.

In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme span style="color: #366388;">Court's conservative majority< expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday — over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans' rights of protection from span style="color: #366388;">police abuse< "upside down."

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said a suspect who goes ahead and talks to police after being informed he doesn't have to has waived his right to remain silent. Elena Kagan, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to join the court, sided with the police as U.S. solicitor general when the case came before the court. She would replace Justice John Paul Stevens, one of the dissenters.

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