(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- This spring, the Illinois Supreme Court is revisiting a 2019 murder case involving a woman who was not read her Miranda rights.
In 2021, Jessica Logan of Macon County was convicted of murdering her 19-month-old son.
Evidence used in Logan's trial included a reenactment video of Logan finding her son's body and audio from recorded phone calls with her son's father.
Logan's legal team says Logan was coerced into creating the reenactment video and that she should have been read her Miranda rights before participating in it.
But prosecutors say Logan could have declined to participate and was not detained, which meant reading her Miranda rights was unnecessary.
Miranda rights came into existence after a landmark 1966 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona. The court ruled law enforcement must identify certain constitutional protections to people in custody.
The decision protects the right to remain silent, and to have an attorney, among other things for people accused of crimes.
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