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Miranda vs. Arizona Miranda’s Early Years In 1955 Ernest Miranda’s problems all began when his mother died while he was in grade school. Ernest and his father never got along well. His father ended up remarrying. Ernest did not like his new stepmother. His antisocial behavior really started to show up at this stage of his life. He kept his distance from his father and stepmother, as well as his brothers. He was a chronic truant and had his first criminal conviction when he was in the eighth grade. The following year, Miranda was arrested and convicted of burglary and sentenced to a year in reform school. In 1956, about a month after he was released from the Arizona State Industrial School for Boys, Ernest was walking home one night when he happened to glimpse at a nude woman lying on a bed in her home. Miranda thought this was an invitation to enter the home, the door was unlocked and he let himself in. He got on the bed with the woman, attempted but failed at having intercourse with her, he remained in bed with her until her husband came home and called the police. Miranda was returned to reform school for another year. At the age of eighteen Miranda decided to move to another state. He headed to Los