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A Miranda warning given by Florida officers indicating the right to an attorney "before" questioning adequately informed the defendant of his Fifth Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
Before questioning the defendant, Florida police officers read him a standard explanation of his rights, including the statement: "You have the right to talk to a lawyer before answering any of our questions. ... You have the right to use any of these rights at any time you want during this interview." (Emphasis added.)
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A consensual encounter between police and a burglary suspect was not transformed into an unconstitutional seizure by the premature issuance of a Miranda warning, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled in affirming a conviction.
A police officer asked the defendant to have a talk with him because the defendant resembled a burglary suspect shown on a store security tape.
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Police officers were not constitutionally required to issue a Miranda warning to an assault suspect when they entered his home to investigate a report of domestic abuse, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled in affirming a trial court.
A pizza delivery man told police that he had made a delivery to a mobile home and that the woman who opened the door appeared to be injured. Two police officers went to check on the woman's welfare, knocked on the door and announced their identity. Nobody answered the door, but the officers could hear someone moving around inside. They walked around the trailer, tapping on windows, and then stood 30 feet from the front door, talking to each other.
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(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking.
- John Pistole
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The police were not required to issue a Miranda warning when they interviewed a child pornography suspect for over two hours at his workplace, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a suppression order. The police identified the defendant as a child pornography suspect when they linked his work e-mail address to the e-mail address of an individual who had downloaded illegal images from a website.
After obtaining a search warrant, officers met the defendant at the office where he worked and interviewed him for more than two hours in a conference room.
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A defendant's request to suppress a pre-Miranda warning statement was denied by a Monroe County Court judge on the grounds the statement was pedigree information.
In People v. Sam Barnett, the defendant moved to dismiss the indictment against him; suppress statements he made to police along with a photographic array; and for a probable cause hearing with respect to certain evidence obtained by a parole officer.
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A pharmacy customer who admitted to forging a prescription when a police officer interviewed him in an employee lounge did not need to be given a Miranda warning, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in reversing suppression of his statements.
After a pharmacist contacted the police about a suspicious prescription, a plain-clothed police officer met the suspected customer at the pharmacy.
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Perhaps at the start of each new day, every service provider for every single electronic device 21st-century Americans use should be required to personally remind us of the power they wield over us. Think of it as a daily Miranda warning!
From cellphone to computer to the various and sundry gadgets that interface with the worldwide Web would come this greeting: