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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
They SHOULD do away with Michigan vs Jackson. If someone decides to voluntarily waive their right to counsel and go ahead and talk to the police, even though he does have a lawyer, where in the Constitution does it say he is not allowed to talk to the police if he wants to? Absurd.

If you read the briefs in this case, you would never come to the conclusion that he guy voluntarily waived his right to counsel. If the CIA treated a terrorist like this guy was treated, Obama would have that CIA agent prosecuted.

Read the briefs before you make your comment. You look like an idiot otherwise.

114 posted on 04/25/2009 10:05:57 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: SeaHawkFan

Whether in a particular case someone did or did not voluntarily waive his right to counsel is a question of fact, not a question of law.

If a person was really coerced into waiving his right to counsel, his constitutional rights were violated. That is true WHETHER OR NOT the law as a constitutional matter is as set forth in Michigan vs Jackson.

Stick to football.


115 posted on 04/25/2009 10:16:11 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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