Interrogation | Facts: Ernest A. Miranda was arrested by police for kidnapping and rape and taken to an interrogation room in a police building. In response to police questioning, Miranda signed a confession containing a typed paragraph stating that the confession was made voluntarily with full knowledge of his legal rights and with the that any statement he made therein might be used against him. This confession was admitted into evidence at his trial on kidnapping and rape charges, and Miranda was convicted as charged. | Issue: Were Miranda's constitutional rights to counsel and against self-incrimination violated? | Decision: In the absence of an intelligent waiver of the constitutional rights involved, confessions and other statements obtained by custodial police interrogation are inadmissible as evidence, when the suspect (as Miranda) was not informed of his right to counsel, or of his right to be silent, or of the possible use of his statements as evidence against him.