Court Opinion

ID: 9423965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:09:46.010574+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:47.384964
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan,
concurring.
The passage of time has not made the Miranda case any more palatable to me than it was when the case was decided. See my dissenting opinion, and that of Mr. Justice White, in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 604, 526 (1966).
Yet, despite my strong inclination to join in the dissent of my Brother White, I can find no acceptable avenue of escape from Miranda in judging this case, especially in light of Mathis v. United States, 391 U. S. 1 (1968), which has already extended the Miranda rules beyond the *328police station, over the protest of Justices Stewart, White, and myself, id., at 5-8. Therefore, and purely out of respect for stare decisis, I reluctantly feel compelled to acquiesce in today’s decision of the Court, at the same time observing that the constitutional condemnation of this perfectly understandable, sensible, proper, and indeed commendable piece of police work highlights the unsoundness of Miranda.