Michigan Court Rules In Favor Of Upper Peninsula Teen Who Was Not Given His Miranda Warnings

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an Upper Peninsula teenager in a dispute over a school threat and the right to remain silent when questioned by police in the principal’s office.

Authorities in Alger County can’t use the boy’s incriminating statements against him because he wasn’t given a Miranda warning, the court said in a 3-0 opinion last week.

In 2021, the then13-year-old boy was pulled from class and taken to the principal’s office at a Munising school. The boy acknowledged appearing in a video with a shotgun and text that said, “be ready tomorrow.”