[quote]FBI agents violated the rights of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by continuously questioning him while he lay in pain in a hospital bed, even after he had asked for a lawyer 10 times and authorities had determined there were no other bombs or threats to public safety, defense lawyers argued in court documents filed Wednesday.
The attorneys asked a Boston federal judge to suppress all statements Tsarnaev made to law enforcement while he was hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
"The questioning continued for hours, in what was obviously an effort to extract as much incriminating information as possible, without regard for the protections of the Fifth Amendment," his lawyers wrote in the 21-page filing. At the time, Tsarnaev could not talk because of his injuries, so he answered questions in writing.
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Law enforcement officers had said when they arrested Tsarnaev that they would not read him his Miranda rights, citing a "public safety exception" that can be invoked when the suspect may have information of urgent concern to public safety. His lawyers say the questioning should have stopped once he asked for a lawyer.[/quote]
good job, law enforcement...
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One less person to give the death penalty.