What is the public safety exception? Describe a recent case where the United States Department of Justice Memorandum titled Custodial Interrogation for Public Safety and Intelligence-Gathering Purposes of Operational Terrorists Inside the United States guided the use of this exception, and summarize what is included in the Memorandum.
What will be an ideal response?
The public safety exception states that questions made by officers in the interest of public safety need not be preceded by a Miranda warning. Following the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon, the government announced it would invoke the public safety exception and not immediately Mirandize the suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Its decision was guided by the United States Department of Justice Memorandum titled Custodial Interrogation for Public Safety and Intelligence-Gathering Purposes of Operational Terrorists Inside the United States. This Memorandum advises federal agents who are questioning terrorist suspects that they may ask any and all questions that are reasonably prompted by an immediate concern for the safety of the public or the arresting agents without advising the arrestee of his Miranda rights. After that, the agents should advise the arrestee of his Miranda rights before further questioning, unless there are “exceptional circumstances.”
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A. rape
B. fraud
C. robbery
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