Here’s the funny thing which always confuses me:
Dude has the rights anyway. What’s the big deal about reading them to him?
This is a complete distraction!
Whether they read to him the constitution or not is irrelevant!
Correct. He has the rights either way.
The legal system presumes everyone is an idiot and dictates that you must be made aware of your rights before anything you say can be used against you. Well, we already have enough evidence to put him to death, we don't need to use anything he says to prosecute him.
What encouragement is there for him to talk? Well, I wouldn't pull back from the death penalty.
I disagree that it is irrelevant whether they read him his rights or not. It is a basic principle that guides law enforcement in their treatment of citizens that are arrested. Like it or not, Dzokhar Tsarnaev is a citizen of the United States. If he is not read his rights and is denied access to a lawyer, where does that leave you or me, as conservatives who have been declared a threat by the Obama administration, if hey decide we should be arrested? What if they decide we are a public safety danger and refuse to give us access to the rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution? That’s a slope I would rather stay away from.
Because the Supreme Court said so - Miranda v. Arizona (384 US 486).
He has the rights anyway, just like my right to own a firearm.
Anything he says before Miranda can’t be used against him so it’s a form of immunity of testimony and if he gives up others he could be promised no death penalty. They already have the carjacking victim saying they admitted to bombings and the MIT policeman murdered.
Agreed. This Miranda rights business is being played into a giant smokescreen. In real, legal, life it isn’t like Law & Order. He’s a citizen and he has the right to counsel, etc. What’s problematic is that the press is playing right into the Admin’s assertion that some citizens don’t have this right, so since this is an extraordinary situation, trust that the feds know best. See where I’m going with this?