<story><title>King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people</title><url>http://kuow.org/post/king-county-rolls-out-miranda-rights-tailored-young-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>If they are concerned enough about unnecessarily ruining lives to change the Miranda warning, why not focus more on exercising the most powerful tool we have in our criminal justice system: prosecutorial discretion? After all, the cops reading the Miranda warning can only bring people to jail; it’s the prosecutors that keep them there.&lt;p&gt;Prosecutors have the ability to not file cases at all. They also have the ability to offer diversion programs, wherein accused criminals can voluntarily agree to community-based sanctions&amp;#x2F;supervision in exchange for their cases not being filed.  These do exist in some jurisdictions today, but tend to be offered to a very small percentage of defendants.&lt;p&gt;In short: if they really cared about ruining lives, they’d stop trying so hard to ruin lives (in all but the most serious cases).  Changing the Miranda warning may be a very small step forward, but getting prosecutors on board is the only way to make a real difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people</title><url>http://kuow.org/post/king-county-rolls-out-miranda-rights-tailored-young-people</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Chaebixi</author><text>&amp;gt; If you do want to talk to me, I can tell the juvenile court judge or adult court judge and Probation Officer what you tell me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s missing the explicit warning that &amp;quot;what you say can and will be used against you in the court of law.&amp;quot;  I think they should add a clause to the end stating &amp;quot;and they can use this information against you to get you in trouble.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This video is always relevant when the subject of talking to police comes up: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>