Statements Rep. Allen said following arrest are thrown out

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"Comments state Rep. Bob Allen made to police after he was arrested and charged with soliciting prostitution will not be used in court, attorneys agreed Monday.

Attorney Greg Eisenmenger said his client Allen was not informed of his Miranda rights to remain silent until he was booked into the jail, after which police asked no more questions.

State prosecutors did not oppose Eisenmenger's motion to suppress Allen's statements and said the comments were not needed to prosecute the case.

Authorities say the Republican lawmaker from Merritt Island agreed to pay an undercover officer $20 to perform oral sex on him at a park restroom July 11. Police records say Allen told police he talked to the other man only because he was intimidated by the "stocky black guy" - who turned out to be a police officer."





Read more: http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/082707/D8R9O4M82.shtml

[underpants]

1. I am glad that he was able to get some sort of justice in world set against him

Oh when will my people be set free?!?!?!? :cry:

[Orsino]

2. How hard is it to recite the Miranda warning?

This oversight does call into question the competency of the arresting officer.

[Orrex]

3. Indeed. WTF?

Any dumbass who's ever seen five minutes of any cop show knows that. Again, WTF?


That said, you'd think that a professional legislator could be assumed to be aware of his civil rights, since they're something he's nominally supposed to be upholding...

[auburngrad82]

4. I'm pretty sure this is just an easy way to let him off the hook

Make the cop look bad and let the pol off the hook.

[gratuitous]

7. My guess is Allen panicked and just started babbling

Hard to interrupt someone who's being so comical, you know? I hope the prosecution is right, and they don't need Allen's stupid remarks to secure a conviction. The testimony of the arresting officer should be sufficient.

Curious, though, just how interested Republicans are in due process when it's their name on the docket instead of some nameless, faceless Afghani or Iraqi who may have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time when the troops swept through.

[Orsino]

8. Surely a competent police officer could have interrupted...

...before they reached the station.

[JTFrog]

5. nm.

I hope they are right and they don't need it. Stupid mistake.

[rox63]

6. Despite that, there's still the testimony of the police officer

That should be pretty damaging by itself. That's still admissable, right?

[Scurrilous]

10. Yeah..

...the police officer's testimony is probably all the prosecution needs.

I predict he'll enter a Pre-Trial Intervention Program (if he's eligible) and avoid the embarrassment of going to court.

[Tempest]

13. Allen's statements after he were read his rights are damning

Allen's defense is weak and no jury is going to believe him about being scared.

And there's the racism issue that will be in the jury's mind when he tries to explain his actions.

[Doctor_J]

9. That's the part where he said that he thought his best plan for "escape"

was to offer bj's and $20 bills?

Justice in Jeb Crow's Florida

[redqueen]

12. Well I don't know about you, but that's the first thing I do

when I feel intimidated...

:crazy:

[gratuitous]

14. Boo!

Did I intimidate you?

Any more at home like you?

:spank:

[redqueen]

15. hahahah

Nope! Takes a lot more than that to intimidate me.

Besides, I'm fresh out of twenties. ;)

[Doctor_J]

18. redqueen, I've seen pics of you and pics of Allen

this ploy is much more likely to work fro you, IMHO. :evilgrin:

[MidwestTransplant]

11. And I will bet that in the past he was a big critic of Miranda like most facists.

[yardwork]

19. It's like watching these Republicans get religion...

[kirby]

16. Miranda?

Miranda rights are pre-9/11 thinking...

[jackster]

17. Using the term "thrown out"

tends to suggest that the evidence was "thrown out" of court by a judge. However, it is the prosecutors who are deciding not to even use the evidence.

[wordpix]

20. another repuke lawmaker getting a public restroom bj? What is with these freaks?

Just what the public wants---to go take a leak and have to see/hear some guys doing each other. That is unbelievably rude and crude.

[ngant17]

21. sex inside public toilets? Perhaps they are carrying this 'public servant' role

to a ridiculous extreme.

If they would only start representing the majority from a political position, not a sexual position.