Criminal
Feb. 25, 2010
Miranda Under Attack
Konrad Moore of the Kern County Public Defender's Office considers the issue of reading Miranda rights to suspects in terrorism cases.
Konrad Moore
Public Defender, Kern County Public Defender's Office
A plan under review by the White House involves the Justice Department, FBI and intelligence community consulting on information about terrorist suspects arrested in the United States before deciding on whether to read them their Miranda rights. Hard cases make for bad law, and the recent experience involving alleged would be Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stands to make for horrible law.
Under long established precedent, a criminal suspect who has been taken int...
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