Court case could make Miranda warnings thing of the past

Monday, December 2, 2002

LOS ANGELES -- For five years, Oliverio Martinez has been blind and paralyzed as the result of a police shooting. Now he is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine if decades of restraints on police interrogations should be discarded.

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