Commonwealth v. Jordan

Dissenting Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts:

“The warning of a right to counsel would be hollow if not couched in terms that would convey to the indi*278gent—the person most often subject to interrogation— the knowledge that he too has the right to have counsel present [at a custodial interrogation]. As with the warnings of the right to remain silent and of the general right to counsel, only by effective and express explanation to the indigent of this right can there be assurance that he was truly in a position to exercise it.” Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 473, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 1627 (1966)…