Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent
Original Airdates: June 11-13, 2021
TVC 542.4: Ed welcomes Joseph Wallenstein, award-winning writer, producer, and director for film and television, and the director of physical production at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Joe’s latest book, Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, is a historical novel that not only tells the back story of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona from June 1966, but puts a human face on the people involved—particularly, John Flynn, the real-life defense lawyer from Phoenix, Arizona who not only argued the Miranda case before the U.S. Supreme Court at great personal cost, but in so doing created a legal precedent, the right to fairness, that changed the lives of all Americans. June 13, 2021 marked the 55th anniversary of the Miranda decision. Topics this segment include what first drove Joe’s interest in the Miranda case, and how the Supreme Court ruling helped shape the U.S. Code of Criminal Procedure as we know it today.
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Original Airdates: June 11-13, 2021
TVC 542.5: Joseph Wallenstein, author of Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, discusses how the Miranda case addresses both Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment issues. He also shares a few stories about his career in television, including working with Julie Harris and producer Michael Filerman on Knots Landing, and with Oscar winner Jessica Tandy on the award-winning TV-movie The Story Lady. Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent is a historical novel that not only tells the back story of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona from June 1966, but explores how the outcome of the case had a ruinous effect on attorney John Flynn. Joe’s book also includes the original U.S. Supreme Court petition that Flynn filed in July 1965, plus the transcript of a detailed interview that Flynn gave to Joe in September 1979 (just a few months before Flynn died). June 13, 2021 marked the 55th anniversary of the Miranda decision.
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