Mohammed gets Miranda, praise Allah
George at Orwellian.Org
George at Orwellian.Org
Sat Feb 17 18:46:52 PST 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/17/nyregion/17TERR.html?pagewanted=all
#
# February 17, 2001
#
# Judge Extends Legal Rights Beyond U.S.
#
# By BENJAMIN WEISER
#
# A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that foreign suspects
# who are interrogated abroad by American law enforcement officials
# are entitled to the same Fifth Amendment right against
# self-incrimination as suspects who are questioned in the United
# States.
#
# The decision, which was unsealed yesterday in Federal District
# Court in Manhattan, is the first to apply the Constitutional
# standard to such interrogations, wrote the judge, Leonard B.
# Sand. It could have a broad impact on the government's
# investigations abroad, particularly in terrorism cases.
#
# Judge Sand also ruled that the familiar Miranda warnings, which
# are traditionally read to all suspects in the United States,
# must also be administered to foreign suspects who are interrogated
# by American agents abroad.
#
[snip]
#
# "What he has done," said H. Richard Uviller, a law professor
# at Columbia University, "is universalized this provision of the
# Bill of Rights."
#
# Professor Uviller said the decision was "significant insofar
# as it controls the trial of accused foreign terrorists in American
# courts."
#
# "They are treated almost exactly as if the interrogation had
# taken place at One Police Plaza," the professor said.
#
# "It's a sound opinion," he added, "on a novel subject justified
# by all of the best authority, as well as good sense."
#
# The government will not appeal the ruling, said Herbert Hadad,
# a spokesman for the United States attorney's office in Manhattan,
# who refused further comment.
#
[snip]
#
# The judge found the question important because of the "increasing
# regularity" with which American law enforcement officials "are
# dispatched and stationed beyond our national borders."
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