No “National Security” exception available in Tsarnaev
News stories dealing with the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have often referred to some 48-hour “national security” exception to the rules about reading Miranda warnings and questioning suspects. The...
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The Department of Justice has been talking about the supposed national security exception to the Fifth and Sixth Amendment. As I discuss at length in my earlier post, this has its roots in the public...
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More on the so-called national security exception to Miranda – I have found no case by any court in the country that finds a “national security exception” to the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. In fact,...
View ArticleMaybe a “terrorist exception” to Miranda?
Oh, gee. I thought I was done. I found another line of cases specific to terrorism cases. It is not called a “national security exception.” The case that I am reading at the moment is the case of the...
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