Re: well the deaf can simply close their eyes and end the interview - Edit 1
Before modification by BlackAdder at 02/06/2010 04:22:09 AM
Supreme Court nominee Kagan had sided with the police in this case. As solicitor general, she told the Supreme Court that the Constitution "does not require that the police interpret ambiguous statements as invocations of Miranda rights."
The amount of BS in this statement is staggering. The assumption that one has to invoke rights lest they be waived is truly ass-backwards.
You really don't understand the issues here do you? The right to remain silent is an active right not a passive one. By your logic asking a suspect a question twice would be a violation of their rights.
Well, according to SCOTUS it is an active one. Thanks for regurgitating the pivotal point of the ruling as pre-established fact. Also, logic fail.
The officers in the room said Thompkins said little during the interrogation, occasionally answering "yes," "no," "I don't know," nodding his head and making eye contact as his responses. But when one of the officers asked him if he prayed for forgiveness for "shooting that boy down," Thompkins said, "Yes."
Top notch pig detective work nabs another criminal mastermind 
They put a man who shot and killed a boy (the person you dismiss as a "criminal mastermind"
behind bars and your well thought out response is to call them pigs and insult their results. Do you realize how little sense your response makes?Apparently you fail at sarcasm, too. Short of torturing the guy (e.g., keeping him awake to answer questions, altering his state of consciousness to coerce him into talking), the cops can ask him questions all they want. The guy was dumb for responding.
The line of questioning is typical but also insulting to the suspect (if they had not been guilty). Very often I am asked questions by LEOs under the assumption of being guilty... it frustrates me to no end.
"In sum, a suspect who has received and understood the Miranda warnings, and has not invoked his Miranda rights, waives the right to remain silent by making an uncoerced statement to police," Kennedy said. "Thompkins did not invoke his right to remain silent and stop the questioning. Understanding his rights in full, he waived his right to remain silent by making a voluntary statement to the police. The police, moreover, were not required to obtain a waiver of Thompkins' right to remain silent before interrogating him."
I suppose I should also ask for a speedy trial. Otherwise they will assume I want a slow one now.
No but you should make more use of your right to remain silent.
Burn.