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In the United States, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution provide valuable rights to those arrested or accused of a crime, be you innocent or guilty... provided you remember they exist. Not easy when your hands are in cuffs and your face is being smashed against the trunk of a police cruiser. Until the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona, from which the term Miranda Rights got their name, the police were very unlikely to remind you of those rights. Although the exact wording varies from state to state, it goes something like this: In some states the following is added: In fiction, the Miranda Rightsnote The rights themselves exist independent of the court's decision on Miranda - they are in the Constitution - and the warning is only meant to remind you that they exist, although any legal scholar will recognize that, say, the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination falls under the umbrella heading of "Miranda Rights" while the Third Amendment right to not have to quarter troops in your home does not. are frequent victims of Hollywood Law. Some common deviations from reality: In some movies or series, the rights are an inevitable part of every climax. In others, perps never seem to get their Miranda rights read to them when they are arrested. The latter case is actually more realistic: police will only read the Miranda Rights to anyone they want to interrogate, and they'll usually do so just prior to interrogation, rather than as their suspect is being arrested. When we see someone Mirandized, fictional officers almost always recite the text from memory, as if they've said the words for years by heart. In reality, while officers certainly do memorize the words over time, they are still required to read the rights from a card, to avoid mistakes that could get the case thrown out. This is because any deviation from the actual rights as printed means the suspect was not properly read their rights. In addition, suspects are required to sign the card, as evidence in case they later deny having been read their rights. In fiction, the Mirandizing officer is likely to stop when a jaded criminal mastermind mutters, "Yeah yeah, I know my rights..." In reality, they can't, because the law requires that an officer inform a suspect of their rights, whether they claim to know them or not. In fiction, the officer might be tempted to interrupt the reading of rights to suggest an obnoxious suspect really should take advantage of their right to remain silent, or to modify the "if you cannot afford an attorney" with sarcastic references to a wealthy suspect's obvious ability to afford one. In reality, as mentioned above, any deviation from the words written on the card could be used by a defense attorney to claim that their client was not properly read their rights. In fiction, sometimes suspects get Off on a Technicality because the arresting officer forgot to read their Miranda Rightsnote which was the case in Miranda v. Arizona itself. Setting aside how unlikely this would be, this tends to be incorrectly treated as automatically resulting in dismissing the case. It is rarely brought up that this only affects any statements the suspect made under arrest. Any evidence the police had uncovered by unrelated means would still be valid. In addition, the law presumes that a person's rights were read to them unless clear evidence to the contrary (usually in the form of a statement from a reliable eyewitness) is presented in writing prior to the trial. The only time in which Miranda can be waived is in cases where "public safety" is under immediate threat and the officer does not have the time or wherewithal to lecture the perp for 30 seconds. The usual example is the hypothetical case where an officer catches a Mad Bomber in a mall and demands to know where the bomber stashed the Time Bomb, but exceptions must be approved on an individual basis. And even if the suspect is not Mirandized prior to interrogation, the evidence gained can still be used by police to justify further action. While they may not be allowed to bring up the interrogation in court, they can bring up the fact they found a bomb and the bomber's fingerprints were all over it. Even in cases where an illegal interrogation results in a confession or other evidence discovered as a direct result being ruled inadmissible (the so called "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine) there are rare occasions where the police can make the "inevitable discovery" claim, essentially stating that they would have discovered the evidence even without the interrogation ("We would have found evidence of the bomb anyway, since it would have blown up, and an explosion in a mall would certainly have been investigated.") People aren't always Mirandized upon arrest either; sometimes, the police will arrest a suspect, get him or her into an interrogation room and on camera, and then read his or her rights, to ensure that the suspect's response (usually waiving the rights) is recorded. It used to be accepted procedure in some police departments to interrogate people until they were convinced to confess, and then Mirandize them and have them repeat what they'd said "for the official record;" this is now considered to be coercion (meaning said statements could not be used against people in court). And obviously, undercover officers do not need to read rights (the police only need to read them to people they're interrogating who have been arrested; if the police are asking questions but the person is free to leave, they do not have to be read their rights). Incidentally, if you are ever Mirandized, even if you are convinced you've done nothing wrong (in fact, especially if you are convinced you've done nothing wrong), the only words out of your mouth should be "I want a lawyer and will not consider answering questions until I have one." See here for 49 minutes of extremely enlightening and entertaining education on the topicnote ... that said, also check out this podcast episode starting around 17 minutes in for a breakdown of all the things that video overstates, obfuscates or just plain gets wrong. Seriously, the line of thought which says "Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers" is wrong on more levels than we can count. The British version is (oddly enough) a little less formal. You Do Not Have to Say Anything. For anything not US or UK see Reading Your Rights. Subtrope of Artistic License – Law Enforcement. |
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Patriots Day: Averted in the movie and in real life. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were questioned without being read their rights under the "public safety exemption" to Miranda. In fact when the orders came in to not read Katherine her rights the police who heard that order was trying to figure out who had the authority to give that order. Brought up again soon afterwards when Katherine tried to lawyer up and the interrogator said no. As a terrorism suspect, she is not subject to the same rights as a regular criminal. |
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Adam-12 made sure to show Malloy or Reed pull a Miranda card out of their breast pocket to read suspects their rights. Bonus points for when crooks would try to go "yeah, yeah, I know them"; Malloy would inform them that the rights had to be read anyway, no matter how many times the crook had been detained and questioned, then starts reading again, usually from the start. | |
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Fatal Instinct. Ned Ravine reads then to a bank robber-off Cue Cards held up by his partner. | |
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An episode of Bones featured Booth arresting and Mirandizing a suspect in a hurry, since he's on an international airplane that's seconds from landing...and once it touches down, Booth doesn't have jurisdiction. Of course, this is patently ridiculous. Miranda warnings are not necessary for a valid arrest; they are concerned with statements by the arrested suspect. "You're under arrest" would have been enough for jurisdictional purposes, with the Miranda warnings coming at Booth's leisure...if international jurisdiction worked like that anyway, which it (probably) doesn't. | |
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RoboCop (1987): When arresting The Dragon, Murphy reads him his rights while slamming him around the room, throwing him through glass and almost crushing his head. It’s very justified, as said Dragon is a known cop killer who even killed Murphy to begin with. He wasn’t going to take any chances. | |
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Castle: Crossed with Lying to the Perp in "Sucker Punch". Beckett and Castle both insist that Beckett did not read a small-time crook his rights and that he is free to go. The real ruse works in that they aren't after him, but his boss, who would see him walk out of the precinct (with suspicious ease) and assume he was working with the cops. The crook's only chance at survival is to implicate himself further so that the cops would arrest him, and thus keep him in custody. Spoofed in "Boom!": |
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One episode of Dexter had a serial killer get acquitted because he was beaten with an excessive amount of force during his arrest, allowing his lawyer to convince the judge that he was not in a fit state to indicate his acceptance of the Miranda warning. It's pointed out that normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal, but seeing how the only solid evidence the police had against him was his confessing while being interrogated by Deb, it's enough to wreck the case. | |
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Parodied on The Simpsons when Marge becomes a cop. She is forced to arrest Homer after he repeatedly breaks the law (triple parking his car over three handicap spots so he could buy underage kids beer, then stealing Marge's hat). When she tells him of his right to remain silent, he replies "I choose to waive that right" and starts screaming. All the way back in season 1 (Krusty Gets Busted), Chief Wiggum arrests Krusty and tries to recite the Miranda Rights, but either forgets them or gets bored. In the season 13 episode, "The Parent Rap", Wiggum tries again to recite them, this time using a teleprompter in his car. Homer uses a modified Miranda rights as bedroom talk: Discussed and parodied in "Homer at the Bat" when the Springfield police arrest Steve Sax (long story) and when Sax asks for his lawyer, they laugh him off and tell him he watches too much TV. |
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Dragnet In the original 1950's radio and TV shows, being Mirandized never happened - because the show predated the Miranda decision. The '60s revival started just after the Miranda decision, so this happened frequently, with (usually) Sgt. Friday telling the person under interrogation at the beginning of said interrogation rather than at arrest. One notable Mirandizing came when Friday and his captain were busting a crooked cop on the take with a bookie operation. Once they had gathered all their evidence, the bad cop was brought into the captain's office with Friday present, and Friday tossed him a notebook (with the Miranda rights printed on the cover) and asked the suspect to read what was on the cover aloud. So in essence, the bad cop Mirandized himself, and didn't cotton on until Friday asked him if he understood his rights. |
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Parodied in a The Kids in the Hall sketch that involves a very bored criminal robbing a very bored homeowner, then they're interrupted by a very bored police officer who tells the robber, "You have the right to blah blah blah..." | |
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Parodied in Undercover Blues. | |
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In one episode of Alien Nation, Officer Francisco had to arrest an elderly dying Newcomer who had murdered other Newcomers, who had been revealed to be Overseers who were hiding from their fellows to avoid punishment for their crimes. When Francisco starts reading his rights, he gets as far as "You have the right to remain silent," before the Newcomer shouts, "No one has the right to remain silent!" | |
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Parodied in After the Sunset. FBI agent Lloyd and his nemesis diamond thief Max catch a shark while fishing together. When the shark turns out to be alive, Max gets ready to smash it with a beer crate, when agent Lloyd unloads his revolver into the animal, yelling "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT" at the top of his lungs. | |
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Robocop starts to read Kano his rights in Mortal Kombat 11, but a retort from the criminal is seen as enough to rescind them. | |
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Parodied in the Community episode Basic Lupine Urology which is an Affectionate Parody of Law & Order. Troy and Abed are acting like police detectives but regularly point out that they have no authority whatsoever. | |
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At the end of The Shawshank Redemption, a police officer reads the Miranda Rights off an actual card as Hadley is arrested. Instead of being a case of Shown Their Work however, the card is there to indicate that Miranda Rights are still new, so the officer in question hasn't memorized them yet. | |
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The English dub of the original Tenchi Muyo! series used these as a localization for the joke where a panicked Mihoshi, a Space Policewoman, tries reading the giant snake monsters attacking her their rights. A variation happens in the first episode of Tenchi Universe where Mihoshi tries to read Ryoko her rights. However, Ryoko destroys the device holding the rights and since Mihoshi isn't the brightest bulb, Ryoko pretty much goes free because just arresting her would violate her rights. |
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In The Dresden Files, Karrin Murphy gets a couple of these in, usually alternating between reading the rights and continuing the conversation. The first was doing the speech to Dresden himself, in the middle of a crisis with a raging loup-garou. She pauses in between sentences to berate Dresden for being an asshole. In the second, she's arresting Molly. | |
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Freebie and the Bean: After Freebie has already beaten up a witness, Bean says, "Oh yeah, I wanna inform you of your rights. You're allowed to consult a lawyer if you so desire." | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Dumbbells", after a S.W.A.T. team arrests Rocko, an officer says the first two sentences of the Miranda, but then says, "You have the right to order anything you'd like off the lunch menu." | |
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In Another Note, Naomi places Beyond Birthday under arrest as he is loaded into the ambulance. She tells him that he does not have the right to a trial, an attorney, etc., because she is so distraught by the fact that he bludgeoned a 13-year-old girl to death. In actuality, he definitely would have had the right to a trial, an attorney, etc.; the law where he was arrested (Los Angeles, California) grants those to anyone who faces charges, even charges for heinous crimes. | |
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Many writers add "editorial comments" from the arresting officer, as with this example from The Closer: | |
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It's not helped by TV shows explicitly set in Canada which nonetheless feature cops reading arrestees their rights American-style. For example, Forever Knight, set in Toronto, has the hero's partner cuffing a guy, starting the "You have the right to remain silent" bit, and actually telling the guy "Sing along, you know the words!" (Canadian rights are, however, similar to American rights in regards to self-incrimination and legal representation. They're just not codified the same way as Miranda. The main significant differences: you do not have the right to have an attorney present while being questioned. If you ask for an attorney right away, the police have to hold off questioning you until you talk to one for advice, but you cannot say that they can't talk to you without your attorney being present. Also, invoking your right to silence doesn't mean the interrogation is over; you don't have to say anything, but the police don't have to stop asking you questions.) | |
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In one episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake attempts to Mirandize a suspect after being forced to let his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis escape again, but starts with "You have the right to remain Doug Judy." In another episode, Jake and Amy are in a contest to see who can arrest the most escaped fugitives. In a tie, they both corner the final fugitive and begin rushing through the Miranda rights as fast as possible to be the first to finish and win. |
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In the universe of Snow Crash, the warnings have become incredibly wordy and trilingual, presumably as lawsuit-retardant; one cop translates the legalese back into straightforward, probably for his own amusement. "Any bodily motions not authorised or approved by us may result in responses up to and including lethal force..." "Or as we used to say, 'Freeze, Sucker!'" | |
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Used in Hyper Police (word for word, insofar as translations go), where Natsuki reads a giant tick his rights (it's that kind of a series). Played for Laughs when she has to read from a card to finish. | |
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Referenced and mocked in Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold's Soviet cop, Ivan Danko, has to have Miranda explained to him. Later on when he's harassed by a street hustler, he asks: | |
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From one Penny Arcade strip about two officers arresting a "Lamer". | |
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Used rarely in Columbo. Most memorably, when arresting a lawyer for murdering his mistress: Columbo coolly tells him he's going to read him his rights, pulls out a crumpled note and reads it verbatim. | |
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In the "Molly & Poo" arc of Strangers in Paradise, Molly gets Off on a Technicality in spite of overwhelming evidence of her being a murderer (as in, she was found naked and covered in the blood of her dismembered victim holding a cleaver and their heart) because the arresting officers thought the detective handling the case would do that in the precint and the detective thought the arresting officers had already done so. | |
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Parodied in the Blue Bloods episode "The Truth About Lying" after Danny interrupts a suspect's escape attempt by running a shopping cart into his path. The subject goes down, hard. | |
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In Inspector Gadget (1999), Gadget's hat includes a scrolling marquee that displays the Miranda rights during an attempted arrest. | |
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Men in Black: The novelizations of the first two films include one scene each where James Edwards (or Agent Jay) does a version of this - justified in that he's an officer of the NYPD when introduced. In the first, Kay shoots Jeebs' head, and Edwards (who has not yet joined the MIB and become Agent Jay) yells at him to drop his gun and "Don't make me shoot you" before Jeebs gets up as his head grows back. The novel expands this by having Edward start to Mirandize Kay, but get interrupted partway through when Kay tells him to lighten up, right before Jeebs revives. The sequel has Jay doing a variation to Jeffrey, the giant worm, during its rampage through the subway: |
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Murder is My Beat: After Eden admits to possibly killing Dean, she tries to explain why, but Patrick won't let her until she has a lawyer, saying, "Anything you say can and will be used against you," and explaining that he doesn't want someone locked up without getting a fair shot in court. | |
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Parodied in the SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron episode "The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice". The Pastmaster reanimates several skeletons to do his bidding. When the skeletons try to attack some Enforcer pilots, the pilots say, "You have the right to remain buried!" before blowing them to pieces with a gatling gun. | |
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Captain America: Civil War: While fighting Falcon, Spider-Man tries to read Falcon his rights. Falcon throws him through a window. | |
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In Minority Report, when confronting the man who kidnapped and killed his son, the protagonist grapples with the choice of killing him or not. Finally, he makes his intentions clear when he begins reciting the criminal's Miranda rights. | |
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In Parasite, Ki-woo is read the Miranda Rights in Korean, which is Truth in Television, as the rights have been adopted all over the world. | |
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The plot of the 2012 21 Jump Street film is kicked off with a rookie cop failing to properly Mirandize a criminal as he only knew the first line from its use as a stock phrase, with all charges dropped as a resultnote Failing to Mirandize in this instance would actually have had no effect on the charges, since they were arresting the bikers due to drug possession and were not questioning them at all. At the end of the film, however, he and his partner have studied it over and are able to shout the rights in their entirety to the villain in unison. | |
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On Hardcastle and McCormick, in the early episodes Judge Hardcastle carried a Miranda card with him everywhere, including in the pocket of his bathrobe. Since his retirement project was to catch criminals who were getting acquitted on "technicalities," he wanted to make sure he followed procedure (even though, come to think of it, a retired judge isn't a cop, either). Having been schooled by Hardcastle, McCormick would sometimes remind the cops arresting the bad guys at the end of the episode that they had to read it from the card, for it to count. |
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American Dad!: There is a gag where Roger ends up flunking a test at the police academy, and one of the questions he got wrong was he assumed Miranda rights were referring to Miranda Hobbes from Sex and the City. | |
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In Running Scared (1986), Billy Crystal plays a Chicago cop. In one scene, he's trying to arrest a crook who is holding a hostage at gunpoint. Crystal's character aims at the crook's head and recites, "You have the right to remain dead. Anything you do will be used against you. You have the right to a coroner. If you cannot afford one, we will appoint a medical examiner for you." The bad guy surrenders. | |
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Spoofed in Incompetence, the comedy novel by Rob Grant, where the caution takes up an entire chapter and basically amounts to "anything you say (or don't say) means you're both guilty and fully understand your rights". There's also a simplified version, for suspects who don't understand the full version: | |
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The Illustrated Guide to Law has a lengthy section on Miranda rights, what you can do in any particular situation, and what is admissible by the police. A summation of everything can be found here It also points out that technically what you're waiving when you waive your Miranda rights is not your right to silence and to have an attorney present but your right for the government to not coerce you into giving testimony you would not otherwise have given. | |
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There's a moment in Hannibal where Barney is about to provide Clarice with some information about Lector, but in so doing he'll be confessing to a crime (selling Lector memorabilia.) He asks Clarice to "agree for the record" that she has not read him his rights, so that if she was wearing a wire his confession would be inadmissible. Then he has her repeat the admission into her handbag for good measure. | |
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Agent Scully occasionally says this from memory a few times in the earlier episodes of The X-Files after she and Mulder (or whichever member of the local law enforcement) make an arrest. In "Bad Blood", Agent Mulder gets in a lot of trouble when he kills a suspect with a Wooden Stake in the belief that he's a vampire, instead of arresting him. But then the guy rises from the dead as he really is a vampire. Mulder's attempt to arrest him this time involves trying to hold down his coffin lid while reading him his rights as the vampire inside desperately tries to throw him off. |
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Miranda rights are often read by Harry Bosch and other detectives in the works of Michael Connelly. On several occasions, the detectives talk about when it will be required to Mirandize someone during a voluntary interview. In The Last Coyote, when Harry had convinced a suspect in a murder case to come to the police station for a voluntary interview. Harry hopes to cajole a confession out of the suspect, but before he could begin the interview, however, his lieutenant went and read the suspect his Miranda rights, tipping him off that they were investigating the incident as a murder rather than self-defense. When Harry started the interview and the suspect asked for a lawyer (essentially ending the interview before it could begin), Harry confronted the lieutenant and shoved him through his office window. | |
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Fate/strange Fake: After Saber blows up an opera house, Ayaka Sajyou is arrested for it because she was in the area. The policemen who cuff her Mirandize her. She is surprised that the police actually say it, having seen it from watching TV. Later, when the police try to arrest the wisecracking priest Hansa Cervantes, Chief Orlando Reeve says, "You do not have the right to remain silent. Nothing you say will be used in a court of law. You do not have the right to an attorney, and one will not be provided to you. Be prepared." |
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In the premiere of Freddy's Nightmares, the first story is a retelling of Freddy Krueger's origins. In the movies, Freddy gets away with his crimes because the warrant was signed incorrectly and the judge was drunk during his trial. In this version, Freddy gets off because the officer who arrested him didn’t read him his rights. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, a testimony that one witness in the DLC case gives is titled "Right to Remain Silent". The "testimony" is nothing but silence. Although they have the right to not make any voluntary statements, they still have to answer any specific inquiries with a basic answer, which is how Phoenix gets through the subsequent cross-examination. | |
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In one episode of Hunter, a group of teens spontaneously confess to accidentally killing a girl at a party, before the cops even had a chance to read them their rights, so the confession supposedly becomes inadmissible. This sparks a vigilante-kills-the-killers plot. In Real Life, the technicality wouldn't have applied in the case of a spontaneous confession, and even if it did, the police could investigate to find other evidence that would support the case. | |
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[PROTOTYPE]: "You have the right to be ventilated. I have the right to burn your home and shoot your dog. Do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?" | |
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In an episode of Rocket Power, when Twister and his friends are taken in by Officer Shirley for staying up past curfew, Sam, who is the new kid, nervously insists he has the right to remain silent, but Twister assures him she is just taking them home, but Sam says, "That's what they want you to think." | |
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In Rubbernecker, the police drag Patrick out of bed to arrest him over the severed head in his fridge (which he stole from the dissection room to examine it for evidence of murder). One policeman starts reading him his rights. Patrick interrupts him and recites the rest of the speech, which he knows from TV. | |
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Discussed on an episode of The Colbert Report that aired right after the underwear bomber incident. | |
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WarGames is one of the few times in popular culture that you see law enforcement actually pull out a Miranda card and read the text as someone gets arrested. | |
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Played with in Lethal Weapon 3, after a car chase ends with the perp being ejected through the window and knocked unconscious: | |
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Also played with in Lethal Weapon 4: | |
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The Star Trek novel Crisis on Centaurus has Kirk fleeing local forces with an unconscious Sulu, an old lawyer friend, and his terrorist clients who'd rather be in Federation custody to escape the death penalty, and arrests them during the flight with an abbreviated version of Miranda: "You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law. You already have a lawyer so I won't go into that part. You have a phone call coming. Want to make it?" (They don't.) Accuracy aside, it's a good moment of comic relief in a tense sequence. | |
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In Fletch, Fletch gets arrested by a pair of Dirty Cops who flagrantly and smugly plant drug evidence on him just to be jerks about it. Fletch snarks that they should at least read him his rights. | |
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Marcus starts with the Miranda Warnings in the car chase climax of Bad Boys (1995). But, of course, since the villain is in a another car, it's more of a Pre-Mortem One-Liner. | |
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Not for Broadcast: A rather warped version of the Miranda Rights is featured in the game that closely aligns with Advance and its Betterment program. | |
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Batman '66: Parodied. In Issue #39, the Archer steals police equipment and gives it to criminals. After handcuffing a cop, one of those criminals tells another one to read the cop's wrongs. | |
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Played with on NCIS — while trying to get a perp to talk, they tell him that they can connect his crime to terrorism and get him sent to Guantanamo Bay. His "rights" thus essentially boil down to "You have no rights." He talks. NCIS also occasionally reads a member of the military his or her "Article 31s." As a member of the armed forces, the suspect doesn't have Miranda rights, but Article 31 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice has a similar provision against compulsory self-incrimination. Parodied in "The Tell," when Tony and Ziva arrest a hacker who has been hiding out in her van for days on end without taking the time to attend to personal hygiene. |
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In the Monk novel Mr. Monk in Outer Space, we have a scene where Lieutenant Disher is arresting a guy who only speaks in the fictitious Dratch constructed language, and this gem: The issue of the rights being read out from memory was averted in Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, where Monk does read the Miranda rights from a card like he is supposed to when arresting a suspect in a quadruple homicide. |
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Apparently, Superman is expected to read rights to captured villains: failure to do so lets one crook off the hook in Lois & Clark; and in Superman Returns, Lex Luthor implies Superman's failure to read him his Miranda rights (and testify in court) helped him weasel out of two life sentences. So, wait, Superman is a cop? Well, your regular officer isn't going to have much luck holding down a man who can shoot laser beams out of his hands without being evaporated. In one comic (during the John Byrne years) Superman was deputized as a police officer so Lex Luthor (Corporate Bastard version) could be arrested. Perhaps it stuck? There's also Dan Turpin, one of the toughest cops in Metropolis, who never memorized the Miranda speech. He has to read it off a card (which, of course, is generally what real cops do). This is actually a plot point in one story where everyone in Metropolis except Dan got superpowers (because, as it turned out, he didn't want them). At the end of the story, they find the professor responsible. When Dan can't read the card-because he doesn't have his glasses-the professor grabs it out of his hand and starts to read it himself, it says "Mxyzptlk" backwards, and the professor is forced to reveal he's really Mr. Mxyzptlk. Superman switched out the card. |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Police Commissioner Gordon is arrested for a crime for which he was framed. The officer begins to recite the Miranda, but Gordon angrily stops him dead with the fact that he, for obvious reasons, is quite familiar with the recitation. In another episode, the ever-cynical Detective Bullock warns a perp he's just arrested, "You have the right to remain silent, if you choose to give up that right, you're probably going to bore me to death, so just shut up." Bullock has a few noteworthy "amendments" to the Miranda rights. In fact, in the shows run, he Mirandizes at least four perps, and not once does he actually use the correct wording. In the nightmare episode "Over the Edge", Detective Montoya tells Nightwing he has the right to remain silent. Nightwing just quips, "Waived." |
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Hilariously parodied in Spanish comic Pafman, the main characters say the lines "everything you say could be used against you". The bad guy ask what that does mean, so they take the speech balloon that contains this question and smash it in his face. | |
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Shrek 2 provides the page quote. After he, Shrek, and Puss are arrested, Donkey loudly complains that he was never read his Miranda rightsnote the fact the Miranda rights even exist in the medieval kingdom of Far Far Away is yet another ingredient in the franchise's signature dish. Shrek retorts that Donkey is incapable of remaining silent anyway. | |
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In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Mr. Van Dreissen is arrested by the ATF. When he asks about his Miranda Rights, one of the agents wordlessly knocks him down with the butt of his rifle. | |
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Desperation: Peter and Mary Jackson, a couple driving cross-country in Peter's sister's car, are pulled over by crazy Eldritch Abomination-possessed Collie Entragian on the pretext of their missing rear license plate, and arrested for possession of marijuana after Entragian finds a baggie (which actually belongs to Peter's sister) in the car trunk. One of the signs that something is very wrong is when he's Mirandizing them and includes an unexpected phrase: | |
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In Kevin & Kell, when Douglas Squirrel is exposed as D.B. Cooper and arrested, they tried to read him his rights, but when they got to the 'you have the right to remain silent', he replies "Oh, I don't think so." Cut to Dorothy receiving his manuscript for D.B. Cooper: My Story and instructions to send it to every literary agent in New York. | |
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Marcus in True Crime: New York City parodies this. "You have the right to an attorney and some other shit I can't remember." In the first installment, the protagonist sometimes says to suspects after beating them up and cuffing them: "You have the right to remain — unconscious!" | |
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Law & Order usually uses the reading of the Miranda rights as part of an Act Break. The perp is cuffed, and a Detective will begin with "You have the right to remain silent, anything you do say..." as the scene fades to commercial. We are to assume the rest of the speech was given without having to waste camera time. In fact, if the entire Miranda speech is given on camera, it's a pretty good bet that much of Act II will be spent with the suspect arguing he wasn't Mirandized properly, or some other procedural technicality related to such. Law & Order may have been one of the first shows to demonstrate not only the legal repercussions of not advising suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights, but also ways that botching the warning doesn't mean the perp is automatically Off on a Technicality. Finn once inserted "if you puke in my car I'll kill you" into the middle of the warning, when he realized how drunk the perp was. |
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Emily, in Misfiled Dreams, already knows her Miranda rights and wants to exercise them. Too bad she's only sixteen. | |
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In Police Quest, the player had better remember to read everyone they arrest their rights, if they want to finish the game with full points. This is even grounds for Non Standard Game Over for one case that ends up in court. | |
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In the Due South episode "Asylum", Ray gets framed for murder and runs to the Canadian consulate, whereupon Fraser promptly arrests him and reads him his Miranda rights. Since Fraser's whole reason for arresting him in the consulate is to force the Chicago police to extradite him from Canada, you'd think he'd at least make the effort of using the Canadian version of Reading Your Rights. | |
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In the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All, at one point Adrian Andrews, at Franziska's direction, states that she won't testify any further on a subject because she thinks she might incriminate herself. For the case to continue, you have to get her to talk about topics the court is reasonably sure won't lead to self-incrimination. And have Edgeworth threaten her with making her suicide attempt public knowledge. Though to be fair, the point of badgering Adrian isn't to get her to incriminate herself (she isn't the culprit, in any case), but to stall for time so Gumshoe can rescue Maya from Shelly de Killer before he can carry out his threat of killing her if Matt Engarde is found guilty. | |
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Danger Mouse has done a Face–Heel Turn (albeit under amnesia) in "Public Enemy No. 1." The constables gang up on him to arrest him (only DM has snuck out of the melee as the constables handcuff themselves). | |
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A variation happens in the first episode of Tenchi Universe where Mihoshi tries to read Ryoko her rights. However, Ryoko destroys the device holding the rights and since Mihoshi isn't the brightest bulb, Ryoko pretty much goes free because just arresting her would violate her rights. | |
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In an episode of Starsky & Hutch, Hutch is Mirandizing a man whom he and Starsky caught in the process of raping a bruised and struggling woman, but as soon as he says "You have the right to remain silent—" the man, rather than keeping his trap shut, interrupts by yelling "Aw, c'mon, I was just trying to have a little fun! She came with me for kicks!" Hutch stubbornly keeps Mirandizing with "if you waive your right to remain silent anything you say may be used against you" but it's not much help to the rapist anymore. | |
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When Rory from Wicked Good was twelve, he was accused of stealing a lawnmower. A cop Mirandized him from a card. Rory knew his rights by heart and said them right along with the cop. | |
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Parodied in the Duckman episode "American Dicks", where Duckman is arrested during the taping of two rivaling police reality shows, and the officer arresting him states "You have the right to remain silent. You also have some other rights that they'll dub in during editing". | |
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The sequel has Jay doing a variation to Jeffrey, the giant worm, during its rampage through the subway: | |
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Used on Boston Legal, where the police almost never get through the warning without one of the lawyers saying something smartass. | |
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One episode of The District had Detectives Page and Debreno have a case thrown out because they couldn't produce evidence that a suspect was informed of his rights. In the end, they catch the man committing another crime and make sure to shove a tape recorder in his face so they have audio evidence that he was Mirandized. | |
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In Who's Lila?, the school route has William Clarke be arrested under suspicion of murdering Tanya Kennedy, and he is read his rights by Officer Hutchins in the interrogation room. However, the Tex box merely says "he reads you your rights". | |
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Unfortunately, despite the original intent of the Miranda decision (to eliminate shady-but-technically-legal police practices circa 1966), the result of the decision has been the standardization of the Miranda warning as part of official police procedure, followed by the adoption of many techniques that don't actually violate the letter of the law, but do undermine its spirit. The "photocopier lie detector" trick, for example, in both The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street, doesn't run afoul of the doctrine of Miranda, but is a good example of what the decision was intended to stop. (There's debate about whether that one occurred, but similar methods have developed in police stations across the country.) Additionally, people who are arrested rarely bother to remain silent, and besides, the Supreme Court has scaled back the boundaries of what Miranda means in the forty years since handing down the decision. In the end, Miranda doesn't really interfere with police investigations as much as you might think. As the original book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets points out, Miranda is essentially a compromise between a court system that wants to see the rights of the accused protected, and a society that wants to see crimes punished (because confessions are, by and large, the most effective vehicle for that). |
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In the CSI franchise, we typically cut away just after a CSI tells a detective to, "Read him his rights." On the original CSI, the criminalists are not police officers, so they aren't actually legally empowered to perform the arrest. In CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, they are, but still often defer to the nearest homicide detective. | |
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On JAG: Harmon Rabb has his rights read to him twice, first by FBI Agents in "People v. Rabb", and Article 31 rights by Leroy Gibbs in "Ice Queen". | |
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They Call Me Bruce. An undercover FBI agent reads the Miranda to a mafia guy while throttling him with numchucks, but forgets halfway and has to be reminded by his colleague. He then ends with: "You have the right to an attorney. In the event you cannot afford one...I'm available." In his next bust the agent knocks the mobster unconscious, so has to revive him for the Miranda so the bust will be legal. So he uses some of the cocaine the mobster was carrying as smelling salts, leading to a very happy prisoner. | |
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Parodied in The Other Guys: In case everything else in the opening car chase didn't established Danson and Highsmith as a Cowboy Cop pair, Highsmith (played by none other than Samuel L. Jackson) uses the Miranda as part of a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner at one point: |
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Hilariously inverted in The 4400 episode "Trial by Fire": When the team finally catches the bad guy of the week, who had been blowing up members of the 4400, Tom Baldwin says to him "You are being arrested as a terrorist; you will be treated as an enemy combatant: you do NOT have the right to remain silent, you do NOT have the right to an attorney, and whatever you say will damn sure be used against you." | |
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Nancy Drew references this when she strays onto the set of a cop film set in the '50s, noting that it would be anachronistic for Bruce Willis to read the rights. Bruce takes this in stride. The director does not. She does not, however, give the correct date. | |
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In Lois & Clark, policeman barge into Lex Luthor's wedding and start reading his rights to him. Naturally, when they come to the "If you cannot afford a lawyer" part, Lex shouts that he can afford a thousand lawyers. In an episode where the Big Bad was pitting all of Metropolis against him, the public demands that Superman present various documents allowing him to fly (e.g. a pilot's license), his Social Security number (proving he pays taxes; which he does, just not as Superman), etc. When he catches a crook, the cops immediately let him go explaining that Supes didn't Mirandize him. Superman points out that the cops are usually the ones to do it. |
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In spinoff Major Crimes, Captain Raydor will usually advise suspects of their Miranda rights, and then advise them that if they call a lawyer, the chances of a plea-bargain deal go out the window. | |
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Ace Attorney: The actual rights themselves aren't given out since you don't play as a police officer, the occasional smart cookie of a witness has taken advantage of their right to not say too much and accidentally implicate themselves of a crime in court. In the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All, at one point Adrian Andrews, at Franziska's direction, states that she won't testify any further on a subject because she thinks she might incriminate herself. For the case to continue, you have to get her to talk about topics the court is reasonably sure won't lead to self-incrimination. And have Edgeworth threaten her with making her suicide attempt public knowledge. Though to be fair, the point of badgering Adrian isn't to get her to incriminate herself (she isn't the culprit, in any case), but to stall for time so Gumshoe can rescue Maya from Shelly de Killer before he can carry out his threat of killing her if Matt Engarde is found guilty. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, a testimony that one witness in the DLC case gives is titled "Right to Remain Silent". The "testimony" is nothing but silence. Although they have the right to not make any voluntary statements, they still have to answer any specific inquiries with a basic answer, which is how Phoenix gets through the subsequent cross-examination. |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Wheezin' Ed," when the kids find a counterfeit penny operation run by petty criminals Vic and Morrie, one of the arresting officers uses an interesting Malaproper when effecting the arrest: | |
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The Bakshi Mighty Mouse episode "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" turns this on its ear. It's a cautionary tale where Mighty Mouse and Pearl Purheart are getting married with Deputy Dawg performing the ceremony. Only instead of "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace", he starts it with "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you..." | |
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In The Hollows novel For a Few Demons More, Rachel arrests Trent at his wedding and delivers an over-the-top sarcastic Miranda warning, including stating, "If you can't afford one, hell has frozen over and I'm the princess of Oz." | |
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In Where the Crawdads Sing, Deputy Purdue Mirandizes Kya as he arrests her for Chase Andrews' murder. She tunes out after "You have the right to remain silent..." | |
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In Showdown in Little Tokyo, Brenden Lee's character uses the Miranda rights as Trash Talk during a fight, capping it with the Premortem One Liner: "You have the right to be dead". | |
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In Madea Goes to Jail, she is not convicted because the police forgot to Mirandize her. | |
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Dr. STONE: Yo Uei used to be a police officer before the petrification, and apparently he always wanted to invoke the trope. When he shoots Minister Ibara with the gun Senku made for him, he then says "You have the right to remain silent", and seems quite happy about it, though he forgets what comes after "Anything you say can be used against you". | |
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Emergency!: One of 51’s calls involved a burglar stuck in a ventilation shaft. Of course, an officer shows up as they're getting the suspect out. As the suspect is loaded into the ambulance, with a paramedic and the officer sitting in, he will not. shut. up. about how he used to be thin enough to make it through the vents, but he's been eating very well on the proceeds of the burglaries since he makes so much money off of them. After the third or so informal warning that there's a cop right there, the officer goes ahead and Mirandizes him. Either the suspect will shut up when he realizes he's incriminating himself, or him talking about his crimes (and love of baked potatoes) is far more likely to be admissable. | |
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In the Legends of Tomorrow episode "The Magnificent Eight", the group time travels to the Wild West. Ray Palmer ends up becoming sheriff and starts to Mirandize a criminal he apprehends, until Snart points out Miranda Rights haven't been invented yet. | |
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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: Upon being arrested by the clown police for breaking the cardinal code of clownhood, a Monster Clown is told he has the right to remain silent should he choose to be tried as a mime. An earlier Scooby episode played with this. Shaggy takes the fifth when the gang is about to enter a doorway, saying "I refuse to enter on the grounds that it might intimidate me!" |
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Personality Conflicts: Detective Park actually uses them against a monster in Fathers and Sons. Warpitor is not impressed: | |
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The Mask: When a Mad Scientist created a Bad Future, Stanley was arrested and learned the Miranda rights don't exist in that timeline. | |
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Discussed in an episode of Frasier. Frasier believes that he cannot commit perjury for Niles's sake, and has a discussion with Martin about it. Martin brings up an example where he did not read a criminal's rights. Said criminal had been arrested multiple times, and knew his rights as well as Martin did. This was an example of Hollywood Law, though, as Martin said he saw the suspect shoot someone, and thus wasn't going to interrogate him—it was unnecessary. Plus, the only reason he didn't read them anyway is because the suspect got loose and he had to go catch him. | |
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The MLP Loops: A cop version of Fluttershy recites a deliberately inaccurate version in one Loop - instead of "You have the right to remain silent", it starts with "You have the right to remain adorable". Justified in that a) she was speaking to a talking dog (whom she specifically doesn't intend to question or arrest), and b) she was trying to lighten the mood and calm a scared student after having already arrested the real criminal. | |
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Also parodied in the very obscure slasher film Psycho Cop Returns, by the titular, well... psycho cop. | |
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In the Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth manga, Clem Carmody exercises the right to remain silent when people question him about where he was at the time of the murder. It turns out that he doesn't want to admit that he ordered 200 bentos instead of 20, even though his trying to convince the deliveryman to take the extra bentos back gives Carmody an alibi for the murder and provides crucial evidence. | |
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Parodied in Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties, when Jon takes Garfield to the local kennel. Garfield treats it like an unlawful arrest. | |
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