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What did the Supreme Court decide in Malloy v. Hogan?
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In the 1964 case Malloy v. Hogan, the Supreme Court established that the Fifth Amendmentβs self-incrimination clause applies to the states as well as to the federal government.1
By extending this privilege against self-incrimination to state defendants, the decision was a landmark development in U.S. law that laid the essential groundwork for the Supreme Court's later ruling in Miranda v. Arizona (1966).1