IlarMeilyr
Liability Reincarnate!
Lets see if i can make sense out of this.
First off because he is a US Citizen and his Federal crime was committed in the USA then he should and I believe will be tried in Federal court.
Miranda rights can be withheld for several reasons. First because he can't understand them right now, obviously.
And then because they need to question him about other people and other explosives that may be set already. They don't have to ask him about anything that has already happened until later, but they need to question him as soon as possible about connections and continuing threats....
Then they can read him his Miranda and ask him about his asshole brother and himself.......
Not exactly. It's more basic.
We make the mistake of treating his action's as merely criminal, and it then follows that we are obliged to "try" him for those "crimes."
He gets the same legal rights as any other accused person. Thus, before he is to be questioned, he is supposed to get Miranda warnings. BUT, just as there are OTHER criminal defendants who MAY not need to get Miranda warnings before being questioned, so too a shitwad like this terrorist scumbag MIGHT fit under one of the exceptions.
I think it might be difficult to pump that bastard for information without having him implicate himself in the commission of the "crime." And that MIGHT result in a court ruling suppressing his statements as possible evidence which the Government can use against him at his trial.
I'm cool with that. I say that we seem to have more than enough information to convict his filthy as many times over already even if none of his words can ever be used in evidence against him.
Meanwhile, question him hard. Get every scrap of information needed to be as sure as possible that neither he nor any possible cohorts have or had any plans for any other terrorist acts. But "you have a right to remain silent" is NOT something he should be told or which should even be true in his case.
"Scumbag, you have the right to tell us exactly what we need to know or we will fuck you up! You have the right to remain dead. If you do so desire and cannot afford one, a coroner may be appointed for you" (See the movie "Running Scared.")