The problem is, with the law...a lot of it is a matter of procedure, so even though you might be able to quote the Miranda act better than the cop arresting you, procedure says that he has to repeat it to ensure that you are fully aware of your rights. So up until you are read your rights, anything you say is not admissible in court because there is a chance that you might have lived your entire life in a cave and were not aware of your rights. However small of a chance that may be since every show that has anything to do with law enforcement repeats it like they have a duty to, it is still a chance nonetheless.
By changing this, what this does is it allows cops to question and detain someone without reading them their rights and allows whatever info collected to be used in court, essentially clipping the gnads off of Miranda in certain instances. The problem is that the definition of what these instances are is so vague, it places it open to lots of abuse. That is the problem with it. It's like getting charged with disorderly conduct... Eric -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:58 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: in the oh hell no category On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > All the uproar about reading alleged terrorists their Miranda rights > predictably rebounds to allow us all a few less rights. See the last > paragraph (of couse) for a sensible take. A few things I think about when reading this: It doesn't sound like anyone is losing their rights, they just don't have them read to them. Reading someone their rights is so routine it's almost like the question they use to ask at the airport when you checked in about anyone giving you anything to carry on the flight. It's so routine it's like they could replace them with "you know the drill". So routine that I don't think most people really consider the meaning of it anymore. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
