People v. Williams

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1984-05-17

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OPINION OP THE COURT Chief Judge Cooke. An effective waiver of Miranda rights may be made by an accused of subnormal intelligence so long as it is established that he or she understood the immediate meaning of the warnings. An inability to comprehend the import of the Miranda warnings in the larger context of criminal law generally does not of itself vitiate the validity of the waiver.…

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