fyi EncryptoMan on the bar with the purple buttons on it, between search and print is edit. you can change what you've posted for a period of time, i think its 10 hours.

Maranda is a god given right?!? In what religion?

But your right about this case being put down its just too ludicrios and has received too much attention but they'll be another. I just posted this to show everyone the direction this regiem is headed.

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In a 1990 ruling, Rehnquist commented that the right against self-incrimination in the 5th Amendment was a "trial right." Police cannot violate this right when they force someone to talk, since "a constitutional violation occurs only at trial," the chief justice said. The National Assn. of Police Organizations, the California attorney general's office and the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento all have urged the court to use the Martinez case to make clear that the Constitution does not limit forceful police questioning.
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i also agree that its about time all these seperate departments were joined together to form one unit. I dont however believe that these "inconviences" you mentioned will just go away. Now thats its law of the land will just have to watch and see.