 Kansas City Star - "this is but one of a series of high court rulings in recent months that have effectively nipped away at the Miranda ruling .... Perhaps because it is occurring incrementally, few outside the legal community have taken note of the trend ... And besides, as long as the good guys win out over the bad, who cares how we get there, right? ... We ought to care .... [z] eal for fighting crime shouldn ’ t be allowed to undercut American standards like 'innocent until proven guilty'." It concluded that Sotomayor - the newest justice at the court - seemed to understand that "[g] ood policing is based on building cases, not on coercing confessions ... What ’ s the matter with the conservatives on the court?"
