05/12: Miranda warning

[Freakapotimus]

From the News of the Weird

Connecticut's Supreme Court heard arguments in April on a rather fine point in "Miranda warning" law: whether the police can use a drug suspect's vomit against him (or at least use the eight bags of heroin that came up with the vomit). Arresting officers apparently asked suspect Vincent Betances if he had just swallowed heroin, and Betances (without a Miranda warning) said that he had, leading officers to summon medical help. Betances now says the officers' question was unconstitutional "interrogation," even though without immediate treatment, he could have died. [Hartford Courant, 4-23-03]

The full article from the Houston Chronicle is at http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/1882161

[NEMESiSZ]

They could always just hit them with baseball bats.

[JMHX]

Wait a minute, the police are supposed to follow the rules? Hell, not like the ever have before.

[Shih]

You can almost understand why the cops beat people reading things like this. In order to save this uys life they had to flub their own arrest. How the hell are the police supposed to accomplish anything when everywhere they turn they can't act for fear of losing their jobs or blowing an arrest.