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Shocking Rescue: Lost Man Chops Down Power Pole
By Joe Peacock - AOL News(June 1) -- Let's say you get lost in a vast expanse of wilderness. Your chances of someone randomly stumbling upon you are less than 1 percent. You feel completely hopeless about the prospect of ever making it out of there without becoming bear food when -- lo and behold -- suddenly you spot a power line pole. In your head, you paraphrase an old proverb, "If a power line pole falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it will likely make a sound at the control station and force the company to send repair personnel." So you chop the sucker down and wait for help to arrive. ...
Supreme Court's Miranda Rights Ruling Means It's Not Enough to Just Remain Silent
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyBeing arrested in the U.S. comes with a few guarantees designed to protect the suspect, chief among them being the so-called "Miranda rights," or more appropriately, "Miranda warning," which generally reads: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense. Today, the Supreme Court made a historic addendum to this fundamental principle, ruling 5-4 that ...
High Court: Suspects Must Say They Want to Be Silent
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 1) -- Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up. In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday - over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans' rights of protection from police abuse "upside down." Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said a suspect who goes ahead and talks to police after being informed he doesn't have to has waived his right to remain silent. Elena Kagan, who has ...
Pakistani Taliban Directed Times Square Bomb Attempt, Officials Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTop Obama administration officials Sunday said that the Pakistani Taliban, which had claimed credit for the failed attempt by Faisal Shahzad to set off a car bomb in New York's crowded Times Square on May 1, did in fact that mastermind the plot. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking on ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press, said, "We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack." "We know that they helped facilitate it," Holder said. "We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he (Shahzad) was working at their direction." Holder also ...
Times Square Bomb Suspect Faisal Shahzad and the Miranda Warning
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe arrest of Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad early Tuesday morning bared a clear fault line among Washington lawmakers over the proper role of the famous Miranda warning in cases involving terror suspects. Several prominent Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), quickly criticized the Obama administration for allowing its law enforcement officials to read Shahzad his rights while the scope of the attempted attack remained unknown. When it turned out that Shahzad was a U.S. citizen, and thus least likely to be deprived of constitutional rights, Sen. Joseph ...
Shahzad Arrest Ignites Debate Over Miranda Warnings for Accused Terrorists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA debate over whether suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad should have been read his Miranda rights reached Capitol Hill Tuesday, with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer saying doing so was the correct course of action. Law enforcement officials said they first interrogated Shahzad under a public safety exception, in case another attack was imminent, but then read him his Miranda rights, which he waived. "This is a U.S. citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and subject to the constitutional protections and constraints of every U.S. citizen. He is obviously suspected of committing a crime, ...
Nearly Two-Thirds Back Reading Plane Bomber His Miranda Rights
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda-directed Nigerian who tried to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has been a political football for weeks, with Republicans and others criticizing the decision to try him in a criminal court rather than as an "enemy combatant" before a military tribunal, and also for reading him his Miranda rights as would be done for ordinary American citizens. But a substantial majority of Americans -- 65 percent to 33 percent -- believe that it was the correct action for the FBI to read him those rights, including the right ...
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