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...tinkering with the Miranda rule in nine months; last June a 5-4 majority said police could dispense with the warning before questioning a suspect if there was a threat to the public safety--in that case, a discarded gun in a supermarket. Conservative Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dissented from that decision, saying that it "blurs the edges" of a clear rule. But this time it was O'Connor who was picking at the edges, in the case of an 18-year-old from Salem, Ore., accused of involvement in a $150,000 burglary...
...Oregon appeals court reversed his conviction, saying that the first, illegally obtained statement tainted the second and rendered it inadmissible in court. Because the "cat was sufficiently out of the bag," the state court concluded, Elstad confessed the second time thinking his fate was sealed. Justice O'Connor, writing for the majority, found this kind of "psychological" analysis unpersuasive. There was no reason to believe Elstad's second statement was involuntary, she said. But O'Connor carefully circumscribed her reasoning, saying that a subsequent Miranda confession could be invalid if the initial admission is compelled by police coercion. Furthermore...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...They're trying to convince us that the only reason they're doing research is for the well-being of this community," said John T. O'Connor, a member of the city's advisory board. "Let's make this clear--the reason ADL is in this is for the money and the money alone." O'Connor said in reference to the lucrative Defense Department contract...
After Mike O'Connor connected for Vermont a minute and a half later, the Crimson's fourth line got a score when Peter Follows took the puck at the blue line and weaved through most of Burlington, including Draper, and deposited a backhander into an unguarded...