Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the holding in Miranda v. Arizona may be interpreted to provide for the admissibility of a terrorist suspect's responses in an interrogation without administration of the Miranda warnings, to the extent that the interrogation is carried out to acquire information concerning other threats to public safety.
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Latest Action · July 26, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the public safety exception to the holding in Miranda v. Arizona may be interpreted to allow the admission into evidence in a criminal proceeding of responses of a person interrogated in connection with an act of terrorism who has not been administered Miranda warnings, to the extent that the interrogation of such person is carried out because of a reasonable concern that such person has information about other threats to public safety.
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