Legal Opinion

State v. Myers

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided October 10, 1975PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POMEROY, Justice.

This appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict of guilty of breaking, entering and larceny in the nighttime (17 M.R.S.A. § 2103), following a jury-waived trial causes us to focus again as we have done many times before 1 upon Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed. 2d 694 (1966).

We deny the appeal.

In Miranda v. Arizona, supra, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court expressed concern with, in their words,

“ . . . questions which go to the roots of our concepts of American criminal jurisprudence: the restraints society must observe…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. State v. CollinsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
  4. William Lee Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
  5. Commonwealth v. RigginsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. State v. RobertsOhio Supreme Court · 1987
  2. State v. GoodmonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
  3. Brown v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1983
  4. State v. JonesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1995
  5. State v. MelvinSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978

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