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Miranda v. Arizona, landmark court case of 1966 in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police officers must advise suspects of certain legal rights before arrest and questioning. Despite this constitutional guarantee against it, studies conducted in the early 1930s showed that police extensively used force, threats, or false promises to obtain information from suspects. Physical force, though it had become less common, was still being used to coerce confessions at the time of the Miranda case. More widespread, as some police training manuals of the 1960s showed, was the use of psychological coercion. In Miranda the Supreme Court discussed these manuals, which stressed the importance...