[108285] in Cypherpunks
Re: Inferno: CDR: Miranda? We don't need no stinkin' Miranda! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Firebeard)
Thu Feb 11 02:15:40 1999
To: hell@einstein.ssz.com (The Club Inferno)
CC: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
From: Firebeard <stend+firstsaturday@sten.tivoli.com>
Date: 11 Feb 1999 01:02:07 -0600
In-Reply-To: Jim Choate's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:36:07 -0600 (CST)"
Reply-To: Firebeard <stend+firstsaturday@sten.tivoli.com>
>>>>> Jim Choate writes:
JC> ----- Forwarded message from Frederick Burroughs -----
JC> Washington Post article on the 4th US District Appeals Court in
JC> Richmond, Va. ruling that allows admission of "voluntary"
JC> confession of suspect who was never advised of his right to remain
JC> silent.
JC> The surprise is that Congress has passed a law overruling the
JC> Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda decision, in 1968!
JC> Story at:
JC> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/10/169l-021099-idx.html
JC> ----- End of forwarded message from Frederick Burroughs -----
While I hope that the law in question is struck down, I think
that the opinion of the dissenting judge is just as frightening, if
not more. When the executive branch gets to pick and choose which
laws to enforce, it gets to pick and choose who to enforce laws
against, and it seems to me that that doesn't quite go along with that
antiquidated notion of equal protection under the law. Not that both
sides in the whole impeachment fiasco haven't proven that they don't
give a damn about it anyways - the Republicans don't care how the
evidence was gathered, since it was gathered against Clinton, and the
Democrats don't care about sexual harassment law, since the case was
filed against Clinton.
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