Posted on 04/25/2013 5:50:27 AM PDT by servo1969
Thanks to the "Public Safety Exception" to Miranda (which was created in 1980), the government is not forced to choose between treating a suspect as an enemy combatant or immediately allowing said suspect to hide behind an attorney and the right to remain silent. In extraordinary circumstances, when a suspect is believed to be part of a broader conspiracy that might result in the loss of innocent life, authorities have 48 hours to question the suspect before mirandizing him.
Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the man suspected of being a co-conspirator in the Boston Marathon bombings, was mirandized after only 16 hours of questioning. According to a Fox News, FBI officials were "stunned" when federal District Court Judge Marianne Bowler arrived at the hospital and read Tsnarnaev his rights. Sources told Fox News that this premature action might have hurt the investigation.
Apparently, prior to Judge Bowler reading him his rights, Tsarnaev was cooperating with investigators. The arrival of public defenders and the Justice Department, though, compromised the interrogation and now the belief is that "valuable intelligence may have been sacrificed as a result."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I just think peaceful addressing our grievances only accomplish so much. More and more people wake up to an ever more tyrannical government, then one day they will rebel.
Can you explain more please? Would be good reading for those of us who do not know why this matters. Thanks.
The judge is a traitorous subhuman who hates America. Just who sent her to the hospital to read this traitor his “rights”? Isn’t her action a bit odd? Is their no end to what these communists running this administration will go? Hopefully, they will ALL be brought to justice.
wonderful that Obama instructed Eric Holder to cut off the intelligence gathering. Obama is protected again by his orders.
Ya know, I’m getting a little tired of this Mirandizing debate.
As an American citizen, I KNOW what my rights are. They don’t have to be read to me.
Any citizen who whines about not being read his bed-time story - Miranda - deserves whatever comes their way.
You get arrested, you keep your mouth shut until you have legal counsel. Period.
Ooooooo... a judge.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/04/23/meet-boston-bombing-suspects-defense-team
Meet the Boston bombing suspect’s defense team
Gads.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012190/posts
Article on Bomber’s ‘All Star Defense Team’
Thanks Obama....(eye roll)
Why does the article refer to her as District Court when she is Magistrate?
IIRC they aren’t the same thing.
I think it is better to Mirandize than to risk exclusion of his testimony later, if this was challenged.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-usa-explosions-boston-scenarios-idUSBRE93N1F620130424
Boston Marathon, where two bombs went off killing three people and wounding 264, included preparation for such an emergency, a top Massachusetts public safety official said on Wednesday.
“We spend months planning for the marathon. We did a tabletop exercise the week before that included a bombing scenario in it,” Kurt Schwartz, the state’s undersecretary for homeland security, told a panel at Harvard University.
(snip)
http://www.ready.gov/business/testing/exercises
There are different types of exercises that can be used to evaluate program plans, procedures and capabilities.
Walkthroughs, workshops or orientation seminars
Tabletop exercises
Functional exercises
Full-scale exercises
...
Tabletop exercises are discussion-based sessions where team members meet in an informal, classroom setting to discuss their roles during an emergency and their responses to a particular emergency situation. A facilitator guides participants through a discussion of one or more scenarios. The duration of a tabletop exercise depends on the audience, the topic being exercised and the exercise objectives. Many tabletop exercises can be conducted in a few hours, so they are cost-effective tools to validate plans and capabilities.
Communications-Specific Tabletop Exercise Methodology
Nothing that he said under the safety rule could be used anyway. It is strictly used for determining other threats..the way I understand it. They say they have plenty to convict him but with this bunch of left wing hacks at DOJ...it is doubtful.
Just who will do that? There is nobody who is going to step up. These Communists will continue to shred the Constitution and nobody will stop them.
Hahaha...great signs brother.....if only people would open their eyes.
‘compromised investigations’ ?
Just an excuse for the ‘investigators’.
The truth is that since he was technically an American Citizen, that NOT MIRANDIZING him would set a precedent. With this administration, that is not a good idea.
This ‘judge’ may have been doing more to protect OUR rights, than Tsarnaev’s.
That’s her pictured in the center standing under the plaque
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.