Retired Phoenix police officer in landmark Miranda rights case dies at 87
The Phoenix Police Department says the arresting officer in the landmark Miranda rights case has died at age 87. The department said Friday that retired Police Capt. Carroll Cooley died on May 29 of an unspecified illness. He was the arresting officer in the case partially responsible for the Supreme Court’s ruling that now requires suspects to be read their rights. Information about services and survivors was not immediately available. Cooley in 1963 arrested Ernesto Miranda on charges of kidnapping and rape. Читать дальше...