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Mirandize

[ mi-ran-dahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, Mi·ran·dized, Mi·ran·diz·ing.
  1. Sometimes mirandize. Informal. to advise (a person being arrested) of their rights under the Miranda ruling.


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Example Sentences

Jimmy-Saul would surely have noticed that the cops failed to Mirandize the perp.

“The military, to put it bluntly, is trained to vaporize, not Mirandize.”

It reminds me of when I was luxuriating in late-night “Kojak” reruns in the late 1980s until my first wife — a second-year law student at the time — would walk in mid-episode, take a gander at a single scene and remark, “They didn’t properly Mirandize that perp.”

No. 1, the court, the one court that has ruled, has allowed a lot of flexibility in the public safety exception before you Mirandize somebody,” Senator Schumer said.

“I see a fairly strong case against this young man based on a great deal of evidence so, as a prosecutor, the top of my list would not be necessarily to Mirandize him and get a usable confession,” said David Raskin, a former federal prosecutor in terrorism cases in New York.

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