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By Alan M. Dershowitz
The ideal to stay silent, assured by way of the famed 5th modification case, Miranda v. Arizona, is likely to be some of the most simply famous and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American tradition. but regardless of its ubiquity, there's common false impression in regards to the correct and the protections promised lower than the 5th modification. In Is There a correct to stay Silent? well known felony student and bestselling writer Alan Dershowitz finds accurately why our 5th modification rights topic and the way they're being reshaped, constrained, and from time to time revoked within the wake of September 11. As protection issues have heightened, legislations enforcement has more and more grew to become its cognizance from punishing to combating crime. Dershowitz argues that fresh ideal courtroom judgements have opened the door to coercive interrogations--even after they volume to torture--if they're undertaken to avoid against the law, specially a terrorist assault, and as long as the end result of such interrogations are usually not brought into facts on the legal trial of the coerced individual. In influence, the courtroom has given a eco-friendly gentle to all preventive interrogation tools. through deftly tracing the evolution of the 5th modification from its inception within the invoice of Rights to the current day, the place nationwide safeguard is the nation's first precedence, Dershowitz places ahead a daring reinterpretation of the 5th modification for the post-9/11 global. because the international we are living in alterations from a "deterrent country" to the heightened vigilance of brand new "preventative state," our development, he argues, should also swap. We needs to advance a jurisprudence that may include either substantial and procedural principles for all activities taken by way of govt officers with a purpose to hinder destructive conduct-including terrorism. well timed, provocative, and incisively written, Is There a correct to stay Silent? provides an soaking up examine one among our so much crucial constitutional rights at some of the most serious moments in contemporary American historical past.
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His blinding facial wounds made it impossible for him visually to distinguish the interrogating officer from the attending medical personnel. The officer made no effort to dispel the perception that medical treatment was being withheld until Martinez answered the questions put to him. There was no attempt through Miranda warnings or other assurances to advise the suspect that his cooperation should be voluntary. Martinez begged the officer to desist and provide treatment for his wounds, but the questioning persisted despite these pleas and despite Martinez’s unequivocal refusal to answer questions.
CHAVEZ: OK, look, what I want to know if you took out [sic] the gun of the police? O. : I am not telling you anything until they treat me. CHAVEZ: Look, tell me what happened, I want to know, look well don’t you want the police know [sic] what happened with you? O. : Uuuggghhh! my belly hurts . . O. : [ 16 ] the supreme court’s recent decision Nothing, why did you run [sic] from the police? O. : I don’t want to say anything anymore. CHAVEZ: No? O. : I want them to treat me, it hurts a lot, please.
Indeed, the Court has been clear that the scope of the immunity must be at least ‘‘coterminous’’ with the scope of the privilege, or else the person retains the right to remain silent. Simply put, the witness who is given immunity and compelled to answer incriminating questions must end up in the same position—at least as a matter of constitutional theory—as he would have been in had he been allowed to refuse to answer. This long line of cases rests on the assumption—sometimes expressed, more often implied—that absent a grant of immunity, a person has a constitutional right to remain silent in the face of an incriminating question.