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Noun: Miranda
Usage: US
  1. The rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer)
    - Miranda rule [US]

Type of: prescript, rule

Encyclopedia: Miranda, Molise