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...headquarters to make progress in solving the Olympic Park bombing. So they came up with a scheme to trick Jewell into being interviewed by saying it was part of a training tape. Freeh was monitoring the investigation closely and called to insist that the agents inform Jewell of his Miranda rights. At that point Jewell smelled something funny, stopped talking and asked to see his lawyer. When the case against him collapsed, veterans blasted Freeh for botching their scheme to trick him into talking. Never mind that they were trying to trick the wrong...
...star of "Pretty Woman" and "Steel Magnolias" rode in a parade to the Pudding building between Pudding officers Andrew A. Burlinson '97, wearing a "Carmen Miranda outfit," and Danton S. Char '98, in a wedding gown...
...read him his Miranda rights...
...much more serious charge is that the agents conducting the pretext interview tried to trick Jewell into waiving his Miranda rights (the right to remain silent, to have an attorney present during questioning and so on). Jewell's lawyers say that as part of the playacting for the training video, an agent asked Jewell to sign such a waiver. Martin has released what he claims is a transcript of the interrogation that quotes an agent as saying to Jewell, "See, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to go right through it like, uh, I'm going...
Confusion may have arisen because Freeh was switching signals with the field while Jewell was sitting in the FBI interview room. According to several sources, the FBI agents and prosecutors in Atlanta initially decided that they did not need to read Jewell his Miranda warning. Case law has held that a person who is speaking to the federal investigators voluntarily and who is not being detained need not be read his rights. Partway through the interview, however, Freeh called Atlanta and said agents had to give Jewell a Miranda warning. While there are conflicts about what was said when...