Comments by "Joe Kelsoe II" (@nsahandler) on "Real Lawyer Reacts to Batman: the Animated Series" video.

  1. No. The police are the only ones required to read Miranda rights because they are empowered agents of the State. Citizen's arrest is really just a legal holdover of the cry-and-hew legal system (where citizens themselves are responsible for both reporting and apprehending criminals on their own accord). In cry-and-hew it's all private persons running around - and sometimes hiring other private persons or contracting soldiers/guards - bringing someone before a person with the power of state to formally accuse them of the crime (think Sheriff, or Praetor, or Knight). The State then orders the person to be "under arrest" either in state custody or through confinement on their own private property. Anyone at any time can apprehend and bring in a wanted criminal of their own accord but they'll be legally liable (the State CAN not that the State necessarily WILL) for any laws broken during the arrest. But that is if and only if the persons are not acting as agents of the State via Deputies or through Marshaled persons tasked with general authority of arrest under bounty. IANAL I'm just a history buff
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  2. 'In what light I don't think anyone actually died' Never on-screen, at least. Plenty of implied murder
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