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Conservatives objected strenuously to this decision, which freed  many criminals who had not received these warnings. Some historians have recently cited ''Miranda'' for a "complete collapse in society."{{fact}}
 
Conservatives objected strenuously to this decision, which freed  many criminals who had not received these warnings. Some historians have recently cited ''Miranda'' for a "complete collapse in society."{{fact}}
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A majority of the [[Rehnquist Court]] was on record with the opinion that the [[U.S. Constitution]] does not require a reading of the Miranda warning.  But in ''Dickerson v. United States'', 530 U.S. 428 (2000), a 7-2 opinion written by Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]] upheld the Miranda warnings by saying that "the warnings have become part of our national culture." Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] railed against this decision in dissent, but the Miranda warnings remain mandatory to this day.
 
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