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  Miranda, A Moon of Uranus
Miranda [mih-RAN-dah] is not one of the larger satellites of Uranus; however, it was the one that was approached the closest by Voyager 2.
Miranda is a small satellite with a diameter of 470 kilometers (290 miles).
Miranda consists of huge fault canyons as deep as 20 kilometers (12 miles), terraced layers and a mixture of old and young surfaces.
www.solarviews.com /eng/miranda.htm   (1214 words)

  
 Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Miranda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Miranda was named after the daughter of the magician Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Miranda is thought to be composed of about water ice and half rocky material.
Miranda looks almost as if several different pieces of rock were glued together in a random fashion.
www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3h2.html   (432 words)

  
 The Miranda Programming Language
Miranda was developed in 1985-86 by David Turner, and is now currently being marketed by Research Software Ltd. of England.
Miranda was the successor of the functional languages SASL and KRC.
With Miranda, the main goal was to produce a commercial version of a standard non-strict purely functional language.
www.engin.umd.umich.edu /CIS/course.des/cis400/miranda/miranda.html   (309 words)

  
 Miranda
Miranda ("mi RAN duh") is the eleventh of Uranus's known satellites.
Miranda is a daughter of the magician Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
It was initially thought that Miranda had been completely shattered and reassembled several times in its history, each time burying some parts of the original surface and exposing some of the interior.
www.nineplanets.org /miranda.html   (457 words)

  
 FBI Publications - Law Enforcement Bulletin - March 1997 issue - Beyond Miranda
Miranda had a prior arrest record for armed robbery and a juvenile record for, among other things, attempted rape, assault, and burglary.
The Miranda decision was a departure from the established law in the area of police interrogation.
In fact, in the Miranda decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged that Ernesto Miranda was not subjected to any coercion that would render his statement involuntary in traditional terms.7 The Miranda requirements apply only when a suspect is both in custody and subjected to interrogation.
www.fbi.gov /publications/leb/1997/mar976.htm   (3644 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Miranda Rights -- January 6, 2000
To supporters, Miranda is a safeguard against police abuse; to opponents, a spoiler in hundreds of thousands of criminal cases every year because if the warning is not given or given improperly, a defendant's confession can be thrown out.
And if Miranda were not, in fact, a constitutional ruling, the Supreme Court could not have applied it against the states, as it did in Miranda and as it has done in many cases subsequently.
Miranda really simplified and rationalized the system which is why many, many law enforcement professionals -- Paul's comment notwithstanding -- support Miranda, believe it is professionalized law enforcement, and believe it has in fact made it easier for them to operate and have valid confessions admitted into evidence.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/jan-june00/miranda_1-6.html   (2233 words)

  
 Miranda Guitars - Home
Miranda guitars are designed with the needs of the serious acoustic guitarist and guitar student in mind.
Miranda guitar’s neck parameters are targeted to the midrange of the quality acoustic instruments to which they correspond.
Miranda guitars are based on a totally new principle of construction that makes them feel as solid as an acoustic guitar.
www.miranda-tech.com   (645 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Miranda
Miranda's surface is dominated by grooves hundreds of kilometres long, and ice cliffs 20 km high.
Miranda is just on the border between the two classes.
Miranda was the smallest of the Uranian moons to have been discovered with an Earth-based telescope.
www.bbc.co.uk /science/space/solarsystem/uranus/miranda.shtml   (382 words)

  
 Miranda Rights and Decisions
If the Miranda right to counsel can be invoked at a preliminary hearing, it could be argued, there is no logical reason why it could not be invoked by a letter prior to arrest, or indeed even prior to identification as a suspect.
Recognizing that the design of the rule in Miranda was to protect individuals from the psychologically compelling effects of custodial interrogation, the court determined that the rule served no purpose unless the individual attempting to invoke it was in custody and being subjected to interrogation at the time of the invocation.
Because the "interaction of custody and official interrogation"21 was absent, the court concluded that the defendant's "Miranda right to counsel had simply not attached when [he] signed the invocation form in his cell,"22 and therefore, the attempted invocation was ineffective.
www.emergency.com /miranda.htm   (2054 words)

  
 Right to Remain Silent, Miranda Rights
While the Miranda warnings are considered a cornerstone of our civil liberties, the person after whom they were named was hardly someone most people would consider a hero.
After two hours in a police interrogation room Miranda signed a written confession, but he apparently never was told that he had the right to remain silent, to have a lawyer, and to be protected against self-incrimination.
Miranda died in 1976 at age 34 after being stabbed during an argument in a bar.
www.hmichaelsteinberg.com /yourmirandarights.htm   (675 words)

  
 Miranda Law and Self-Incrimination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
However, a violation of Miranda law, in itself, is not grounds for an acquittal nor a reversal of conviction.
Miranda warnings are not required when suspect is unaware he is speaking to a law enforcement official.
Statutory law 3501 made the giving of Miranda warnings but one factor, among many, in determining if a confession is admissible, and more importantly, made the violation of any one factor, including the absence of Miranda warnings, acceptable in terms of getting the confession admitted on grounds of voluntariness.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/miranda.htm   (3840 words)

  
 NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Uranus: Moons: Miranda
This color composite of the Uranian satellite Miranda was taken by Voyager 2 on Jan. 24, 1986, from a distance of 147,000 kilometers (91,000 miles).
Miranda, just 480 km (300 mi) across, is the smallest of Uranus' five major satellites.
Miranda's regional geologic provinces show very well in this view of the southern hemisphere, imaged at a resolution of 2.7 km (1.7 mi).
solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Ura_Miranda   (525 words)

  
 Miranda
Miranda is the innermost of Uranus's large moons.
Miranda's surface is all mixed up with heavily cratered terrain intermixed with weird grooves, valleys and cliffs (one over 15 kilometers high).
It was initially thought that Miranda had been completely shattered and reassembled several times in its history, each time burying some parts of the original surface being and exposing some of the interior.
www.if.ufrj.br /teaching/astron/miranda.html   (422 words)

  
 Miranda (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miranda is a non-strict purely functional programming language developed by Professor David Turner as a successor to his earlier programming languages SASL and KRC, using some concepts from ML and Hope.
The solution to most example problems is briefer and simpler in Miranda than in most mainstream programming languages except maybe APL, and, like other functional languages, its users report that it enables them to produce more reliable programs with shorter development times than with the imperative programming languages they had previously used.
In Miranda, as in many other purely functional languages, functions are first-class citizens, which is to say that they can be passed as parameters to other functions, returned as results, or included as elements of data structures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miranda_programming_language   (1023 words)

  
 Miranda v. Arizona
The potentiality for compulsion is forcefully apparent, for example, in Miranda, where the indigent Mexican defendant was a seriously disturbed individual with pronounced sexual fantasies, and in Stewart, in which the defendant was an indigent Los Angeles Negro who had dropped out of school in the sixth grade.
Miranda was also convicted in a separate trial on an unrelated robbery charge not presented here for review.
The other officer stated that they had both told Miranda that anything he said would be used against him and that he was not required by law to tell them anything.
www.tourolaw.edu /patch/Miranda   (17353 words)

  
 Catalog Page for PIA00043
Miranda, roughly 500 kilometers (300 miles) in diameter, exhibits varied geologic provinces, seen in this mosaic of clear-filter, narrow-angle images from Jan. 24, 1986.
Some of these show very large scarps, or cliffs, ranging from O.5 to 5 km (O.3 to 3 mi) in height -- that is, higher that the walls of the Grand Canyon on Earth.
The missing piece of Miranda's surface will be included in a later mosaic once more complicated computer processing can be completed.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA00043   (215 words)

  
 CNN - New Miranda limits draw mixed legal reactions - February 11,1999
The Supreme Court ruling in Miranda vs. Arizona said police must tell criminal suspects they have the right to remain silent and the right to have a lawyer present, and that anything they say can be used against them in court.
During Dickerson's trial, a federal district judge suppressed the confession as evidence, ruling Dickerson's Miranda rights had been violated, even though his confession was given voluntarily and did not violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The case is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court where Miranda was instituted and could now be scaled back.
cnn.com /US/9902/11/miranda.rights.02   (567 words)

  
 Miranda Online - the Miranda Richardson Appreciation Page
Miranda ran for the Alzheimers Society charity in the Hydro Active Womens Challenge run in London on September 3rd.
Miranda has been cast in the title role of Caitlin, in which she will play the troubled wife of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Michael Sheen).
Miranda has been a well-respected and admired actress since her debut movie performance in 'Dance With a Stranger' in 1985.
www.miranda-richardson.com   (1043 words)

  
 APOD: March 6, 1999 - Miranda, Chevron, and Alonso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Miranda is a bizarre world which surely had
Uranian moons, Miranda is almost 300 miles in diameter and was discovered in 1948 by
Miranda shows wild juxtapositions of ridges and valleys, older cratered and younger smooth surfaces, and shadowy canyons perhaps 12 miles deep.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap990306.html   (137 words)

  
 Miranda warning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Miranda warning is a police warning that is given to criminal suspects in police custody in the United States before they are asked questions relating to the commission of crimes.
In 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested for kidnapping and rape, which he confessed to with no warning of his constitutional right to silence, or his right to have an attorney present.
If an inmate is in jail and invoked Miranda on one case, it is unclear whether this extends to any other cases that he or she may be charged with while in custody.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miranda_warning   (2590 words)

  
 Miranda Camera Home Page
Miranda cameras were a line of quality 35mm single lens reflexes, a range of over 30 models between first prototypes in 1953 through to the last production model in 1978.
Almost all Miranda SLR's shared the same basic lens mount, but the mount complexity increased over the years to accommodate more aperture and metering controls.
The Miranda Historical Society (MHS) was established in 1986 to provide a forum for collectors and to collect and discuss information concerning all aspects of these cameras.This site is also a point of focus and includes detailed articles and research as well as basic information.
www.mirandacamera.com   (316 words)

  
 CNN.com - Supreme Court reaffirms that police must read Miranda rights to criminal suspects - June 26, 2000
In a 7-2 vote decision, the nation's highest court refused to strike down the Miranda decision and replace it with a 1968 federal law that allowed suspects' voluntary confessions to be admitted in court even if they had not been apprised of their Miranda rights.
The reading of the Miranda rights is well known to anyone who has been arrested or who watches television cop shows or movies.
In the Miranda decision, the court ruled Ernesto Miranda's confession could not be used because he was not made aware of his rights when charged with kidnap and rape.
archives.cnn.com /2000/LAW/06/26/miranda.01   (1416 words)

  
 Miranda IM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miranda is worked on both by the core developers and by lots of plugin developers.
Miranda IM was first started by Roland Rabien (figbug) on February 2, 2000.
Version 0.3 of Miranda IM was released on February 1, 2003, approximately 3 years since the beginning of the project.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miranda_IM   (1433 words)

  
 APOD: 2002 February 16 - Miranda, Chevron, and Alonso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Miranda is a bizarre world which surely had a tempestuous past.
Uranian moons, Miranda is almost 300 miles in diameter and was discovered on today's date in 1948 by American planetary astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
Along with the famous "chevron" feature, the bright V-shaped area just above center, this composite of the highest resolution images of Miranda shows wild juxtapositions of ridges and valleys, older cratered and younger smooth surfaces, and shadowy canyons perhaps 12 miles deep.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap020216.html   (161 words)

  
 Miranda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Miranda perhaps contradicts the tenet that larger bodies are more active, as this diminutive satellite exhibits a bizarre surface.
Another possible origin is that the coronae are simple upwellings due to thermal convection of the interior, possibly driven by tidal forces.
Such anomalously large features on such a small satellite also suggest an unusual origin, perhaps being caused by the total disruption of Miranda by an impact, leaving the body in a state of disequilibrium-the coronae and faults being the result of the re-establishment of equilibrium.
astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/BrowseTheGeologicSolarSystem/MirandaBack.html   (287 words)

  
 Miranda IM vs. QuickRiver's "ZeeZ Universal IM System"
Miranda IM is the result of several years of development.
The fact the Miranda IM is GPL licensed has attracted a large group of open source developers who have written more than 170 plugins.
All of them are available free of charge from the official Miranda IM website, most of them are open sourced.
miranda-icq.sourceforge.net /zeez-im   (2276 words)

  
 The Miranda Warning - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
In 1963, Ernesto Miranda was accused of kidnapping and raping an 18-year-old, mildly retarded woman.
The Court ruled that the statements made to the police could not be used as evidence, since Miranda had not been advised of his rights.
As for Ernesto Miranda, his conviction was thrown out, though he did not become a free man. The police had other evidence that was independent of the confession, and when Miranda was tried a second time, he was convicted again.
www.usconstitution.net /miranda.html   (691 words)

  
 Miranda Rights
The police must advise suspects of their "Miranda Rights" - their right to remain silent, their right to an attorney, and the right to an appointed attorney if they are unable to afford counsel - prior to conducting a custodial interrogation.
The police are very aware of when they have to read suspects their "Miranda Rights." The police will frequently question a suspect, specifically telling the suspect, "You are not under arrest, and are free to go.
However, if a person has not received his Miranda warnings, and remains silent, it is possible for that "pre-Miranda" silence to be used against him.
www.expertlaw.com /library/criminal/miranda_rights.html   (1007 words)

  
 Miranda Instant Messenger
Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use.
Miranda IM is published under the GPL license and is free of charge.
The Miranda forums are currently down due to a database crash.
www.miranda-im.com   (510 words)

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