A sheriff’s deputy questioned Terence Tekoh at the medical center where he worked about an alleged sexual assault and obtained a written statement without first giving Miranda warnings. The statement was admitted at Tekoh’s criminal trial, but the jury acquitted him. Tekoh then sued under Section 1983, claiming that the unwarned interrogation violated his constitutional rights. The Supreme Court held that a Miranda violation does not itself establish a claim for damages under Section 1983. Miranda safeguards protect against the use of unwarned statements in a criminal case, but the exclusionary rule and the underlying constitutional right do not create the separate damages remedy Tekoh sought. The Court reversed the Ninth Circuit. Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor, dissented, arguing that denying a remedy weakened the protection Miranda provides.