'Miranda' now on the endangered species list

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The appeals court decision in Dickerson v. United States letting 18 USC 3501 govern criminal defendants' confessions rather than the Miranda rule was an ill-advised piece of judicial activism. The United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit made this ruling, and for an appellate court to suspend a landmark Supreme Court case reaffirmed by recent Supreme Court cases is virtually unprecedented. In federal prosecutions, according to Sec. 3501, a confession given "voluntarily" can be admitted and non-compliance with Miranda does not establish lack of voluntariness.

United States, Miranda rule, Self-incrimination, Self incrimination

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Liberty interest in aided suicide rejected; Court finds no constitutionally protected interest, distinguishes the withdrawal of life support

Article Abstract:

Assisted suicide is not a constitutionally protected right according to the US Supreme Court's unanimous decisions in the Vacco and Glucksberg cases. The court was able to distinguish between life-support withdrawal and doctor-assisted suicide. The court's decision was based on the state's dual interests in handling suicide as a public health problem and in preserving life, the vulnerability of the aged and poor, the possibility that involuntary euthanasia would become a supportable position, and the fundamental role of doctors as healers.

Suicide Victims, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Surveys, Assisted suicide, Constitutional law, Constitutional interpretation, United States. Supreme Court, Life support systems (Critical care), Life support care

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