Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Apr 22, 2013 3:35 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> Sean Andrews writes:
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> I've never hear of a "public safety exception" to the Miranda rights.
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> This is a pretty good overview:
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> http://www.slate.com/articles/**news_and_politics/**jurisprudence/2013/04/
> **dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_**rights_the_public_safety_**
> exception_and_terrorism.html<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html>
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> The last paragraph, for Wojtek who doesn't believe this is important,
> reads:
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> "And so the FBI will surely ask 19-year-old Tsarnaev anything it sees fit.
> Not just what law enforcement needs to know to prevent a terrorist threat
> and keep the public safe but anything else it deemed related to "valuable
> and timely intelligence." Couldn't that be just about anything about
> Tsarnaev's life, or his family, given that his alleged accomplice was his
> older brother (killed in a shootout with police)? There won't be a public
> uproar. Whatever the FBI learns will be secret: We won't know how far the
> interrogation went. And besides, no one is crying over the rights of the
> young man who is accused of killing innocent people, helping his brother
> set off bombs that were loaded to maim, and terrorizing Boston Thursday
> night and Friday. But the next time you read about an abusive
> interrogation, or a wrongful conviction that resulted from a false
> confession, think about why we have Miranda in the first place. It's to
> stop law enforcement authorities from committing abuses. Because when they
> can make their own rules, sometime, somewhere, they inevitably will."
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