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Your Rights: Freedom of Expression

Question 6 • Fall 24 American Government/Civics IC

How has Supreme Court precedent changed your Fifth Amendment rights over time? Check all that apply.Officers can pressure a person to confess to a crime.Officers must communicate a person’s rights to before questioning the person in custody.Officers can question someone immediately if public safety is at risk.Officers can communicate a person’s rights in their own words if they communicate the same meaning.Officers may create different sets of rules to apply to groups of citizens however they please.

Answer
A
Officers can pressure a person to confess to a crime.
B
Officers must communicate a person’s rights to before questioning the person in custody.
C
Officers can question someone immediately if public safety is at risk.
D
Officers can communicate a person’s rights in their own words if they communicate the same meaning.
E
Officers may create different sets of rules to apply to groups of citizens however they please.

Explanation

Under Miranda v. Arizona, officers generally must inform someone of their rights before questioning them in custody. The Supreme Court also recognized a public-safety exception: officers may ask questions before giving the warnings when an immediate safety threat requires it. The warnings do not have to use a fixed script, as long as they communicate the same meaning. Coercing a confession is not permitted, and officers cannot invent arbitrary rules for different groups of people.

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