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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTsarnaev confession came before Miranda rights
The suspect's lawyers will likely challenge admissibility of his admissions, but authorities are not worried
BY NATASHA LENNARD
According to a report from a senior law enforcement official, The Boston Globe noted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed to planting the Boston marathon bombs before he was read his Miranda rights. However, this is not necessarily a problem for the prosecution.
Miranda establishes that statements made by a suspect in custody in response to interrogation are not admissible against the defendant in court unless the defendant has been properly Mirandized. But, according to the Globe report, authorities arent sweating this detail they believe that witness testimony from the man carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers will serve as ample evidence for guilt, even if the 19-year-old suspects hospital bed confession is not admissible in court. Via the Globe:
Tsarnaevs attorneys are certain to challenge the legal admissibility of those admissions, and other information he gave them, such as claiming that he and his brothers acted alone, and that his brother was radicalized in an extreme form of Islam in part because he opposed U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But in an interview with the Globe, a senior police official said authorities are not worried about the initial admission to authorities being thrown out, because they have a strong witness: the man who was abducted by the Tsarnaev brothers last Thursday night.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/tsarnaev_confession_came_before_miranda_rights/
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Tsarnaev confession came before Miranda rights (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2013
OP
There's the visual evidence, whatever they have confiscated, the carjack victim they bragged to...
BeyondGeography
Apr 2013
#1
It is terribly difficult to imagine this will make much of a difference in this case.
Poll_Blind
Apr 2013
#4
BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)1. There's the visual evidence, whatever they have confiscated, the carjack victim they bragged to...
An embarrassment of evidentiary riches without the confession if need be.
kudzu22
(1,273 posts)2. Unfortunate, but
I don't think they'll need his confession to put him away forever.
treestar
(82,383 posts)3. They are probably right
though I don't see why not just read him the rights. In a hospital bed, there's no imminent danger from him and how long does it take the read the rights?
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)4. It is terribly difficult to imagine this will make much of a difference in this case.
The amount of photographic, forensic, testimonial and other evidentiary material is enormous.
PB
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)5. They are not worried
because law is malleable in the post 9/11 world. Hooray!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)6. They don't need the confession
cali
(114,904 posts)7. This kid is going to talk and talk and talk
I read that he almost immediately asked that lawyers with dp experience be assigned to him. I never thought he'd not talk. It doesn't fit the profile we have of him.