• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    And the goal post has been moved. We’ve gone from “he wasn’t technically under arrest” to “arrest and these specific questions are acceptable”. Weren’t you just complaining about a faux-legalistic perspective?

    I don’t know what questions he was actually asked but don’t see the point in looking it up for the goal post to move again.

    Also of note, you mentioned that they can search his bag without a warrant if it’s on his person when arrested. They searched his bag at McDonald’s. So he was arrested at the time.

    • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      I didn’t move the goalposts. You even responded to my specific response to what you said.

      He was arrested when they searched the bag. Not when he was being questioned.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        1 hour ago

        Your first comment:

        Miranda rights don’t need to be read until the person in question is under arrest.

        Implying he wasn’t under arrest at any point while he was in the McDonald’s because the complaint was no one read him his Miranda Rights.

        You now:

        He was arrested when they searched the bag

        Okay, so going by your earlier comment that is when he should have been read his Miranda Rights.

        Actually, hold up a second here:

        He was arrested when they searched the bag. Not when he was being questioned.

        So the moment the police do an illegal warrantless search of his bag, that is the exact moment it becomes legal because the definition of under arrest is “when police are doing something that would be illegal if you weren’t under arrest”?

        That is incredibly fucking convient that he’s not “under arrest” while being questioned (because it would be illegal to question him if he was) but is then immediately “under arrest” when his belongs are searched (because it would be illegal to search them if he wasn’t).

        If what you are saying is true, then that is incredibly fucked up because apparently in the American legal system suspects exist in a super position of “under arrest” and “not under arrest” at all times until the police take an action that would be illegal in one of those cases. Then the super position collapses into the one that makes their actions technically not illegal until the police are done with that action, and which point the super position reasserts itself.

        • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee
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          20 minutes ago

          This isn’t difficult.

          He wasn’t under arrest from the first moment the police talked to him. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t at any subsequent point put under arrest.