Sep 19, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
"You have the right to remain silent." Few Supreme Court decisions have produced words as instantly recognizable as *Miranda v. Arizona*. But sixty years after the landmark 1966 ruling, the…
Richard LeoGuest
Tom HoganGuest
Steve HermanHostBill BernadoneHost
To understand Miranda, we have to begin well before Ernesto Miranda ever entered an interrogation room.
For decades, the Supreme Court had been wrestling with the way police obtained confessions, first confronting outright physical brutality and then the psychological pressures of modern interrogation.
Our first guest has spent much of his career studying exactly what happens inside that interrogation room.
Dr. Richard Leo is a Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
He holds both a law degree and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the world's leading experts on police interrogation, psychological coercion, false confessions, and wrongful convictions.
He's the author of the award-winning book, Police Interrogation and American Justice, and the co-author of The Wrong Guys, an examination of the false confessions and wrongful convictions of the Norfolk Four.
We are going to ask him to tell us take us from the violence of the old third degree through the court's earlier efforts to confront coerced confessions and ultimately to the 1966 decision that produced the warning nearly every American now recognizes.
To understand Miranda, we have to begin well before Ernesto Miranda ever entered an interrogation room.
For decades, the Supreme Court had been wrestling with the way police obtained confessions, first confronting outright physical brutality and then the psychological pressures of modern interrogation.
Our first guest has spent much of his career studying exactly what happens inside that interrogation room.
Dr. Richard Leo is a Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
He holds both a law degree and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the world's leading experts on police interrogation, psychological coercion, false confessions, and wrongful convictions.
He's the author of the award-winning book, Police Interrogation and American Justice, and the co-author of The Wrong Guys, an examination of the false confessions and wrongful convictions of the Norfolk Four.
We are going to ask him to tell us take us from the violence of the old third degree through the court's earlier efforts to confront coerced confessions and ultimately to the 1966 decision that produced the warning nearly every American now recognizes.
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