The Miranda Rights

Ernesto Miranda was born in Mesa, Arizona on March 9, 1941.   He first began getting into trouble while he was attending grade school when he was a child.   Miranda’s first criminal conviction was in 8th grade.   The following year he was convicted for burglary, and sentenced to one year in Arizona State Industrial School for Boys.   In 1956, almost a month after his release from reform school, he was walking home one night when he happened to glimpse in a house to where a nude woman was lying on a bed.   Miranda then entered the home, which he did through the unlocked front door.   He got in the bed with the woman, attempted but failed to have sex with her, and remained in bed with her until her husband came home.   The husband immediately called the police and Miranda was then returned to reform school for an additional year.   After his second release, he relocated to Las Angeles, California.   Within a few months after his arrival to Las Angeles, Miranda was arrested but not convicted on suspicion of armed robbery and for some minor sex offenses, including being caught in the act of spying on people’s sexual activities.   After two and a half years in custody, it was decided that 18-year-old Miranda had to be deported back to Arizona.   With little family support from his father, (his mother had died when he was young, and his father did not want any relationship with him) an already lengthily criminal record, and a few job skills, he decided to join the military.   During his service with the army, he received many absent without leave charges, or what is also called AWOL charges and additional charges for spying on other people’s sexual activities.   Miranda became discharged after 15 months after he failed to consult a psychiatrist as ordered.   It was known that Miranda had traveled around the south after that.   He had spent time in Texas jail for living on the street with ought any money for food and a place to go.   He also had been arrested in Nashville for driving a...