Ernesto Miranda Killed Over Cards

Ernesto Miranda, whose 1966 Supreme Court case created the Miranda warning that police recite to criminal suspects, spent his later years back in Phoenix after his release from prison. On January 31, 1976, witnesses saw him get into an argument over a card game at a bar in downtown Phoenix, where someone stabbed him, and doctors pronounced him dead shortly after at a local hospital.

Police arrested suspects and read them their Miranda rights, and at least one man invoked his right to remain silent and refused to answer questions. Another suspect, Eseziquiel Moreno Perez, was charged with Miranda's murder but fled to Mexico and was never found, so no one was ever convicted of killing the man behind Miranda rights.

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