What happens if the police didn't read me my rights?
Hripsime Bagdasaryan's Answer
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What happens if the police don't read you your rights? So these rights in question are your Miranda rights
that protect us from
custodial police interrogations. So police are only required to read these rights to you
before a custodial interrogation, meaning you are not free to leave and
you are being questioned by the police. That is a custodial interrogation.
If they don't read you these rights during that time, it doesn't mean that your case is going to get dismissed.
Anything you say during that questioning can be excluded from court as evidence if there is a violation of your Miranda rights,
but the case can still move forward with all of those statements excluded.
So the arrest itself can still be valid, the case can still proceed with other things like videos, witness testimony,
physical evidence, things like that. So just because the police don't read you your rights,
it doesn't always mean the case is going to get dismissed. So the short answer is it's a case-by-case basis, but a
violation generally would mean exclusion of those statements. So I hope that helps.