Disturbing Report Indicates Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Requests for a Lawyer were Ignored !

• Disturbing report indicates Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer were  ignored ! 
  by Madison Ruppert, http://endthelie.com/ 
  A recent report reveals a disturbing fact about the treatment of Boston  bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: his multiple requests for a lawyer during his  interrogation were ignored.
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  While reports indicating that Tsarnaev’s Miranda rights were being  withheld were disturbing enough, this new aspect pointed out today by Glenn Greenwald is far worse.
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  Apparently, Tsarnaev was Mirandized only because a federal magistrate decided to hold an in-hospital hearing for the suspect  during which he was advised of his right to remain silent and appointed a  lawyer.
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  This hearing interrupted an interrogation that had lasted some 16 hours up to  that point. The Mirandizing of Tsarnaev upset former Mayor of New York City Rudy  Giuliani who called it “mind-boggling” and House Intelligence  Committee Chairman Mike Rogers who called the decision to intervene a “God-awful  policy.”
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  Yet even more insane is that the Los Angeles Times reported, “A senior congressional aide said Tsarnaev had  asked several times for a lawyer, but that request was ignored since he was  being questioned under the public safety exemption to the Miranda rule.”
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  Greenwald points out that if this report is indeed accurate, it would be a  much more serious violation of essential rights than delaying Miranda warnings  under the “public safety exception,” even the expanded version pushed by the  Obama Justice Department.
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  Denying the right to a lawyer during interrogation after repeated requests is “as fundamental a violation of crucial guaranteed rights as can be imagined,” according to Greenwald.
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  “The bottom line is this: not telling a suspect about his rights in order to  try obtain brief, immediate and emergency public safety information is one  thing,” writes the lawyer writing under the name “bmaz” for Empty Wheel. “Straight out denying and refusing a defendant  constitutional rights he is legally entitled to, and has tried to invoke, is  quite another. The government has issues on both fronts as to Tsarnaev.”
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  Invoking the public safety exemption to deny the right to a lawyer has only  been accepted in cases where “the intrusion into the constitutional right to  counsel […] was so fleeting – in both it was no more than a question or two  about a weapon on the premises of a search while the search warrant was actively  being executed,” according to bmaz.
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  “Nothing whatsoever like the 16 hours of interrogation applied to Tsarnaev,  across at least two sessions, over a period of at least two days,” bmaz  adds.
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  Even the use of the public safety exception was dubious, according to law  school dean Erwin Chemerinsky. The public safety exception “does not apply here because there was no  emergency threat facing law enforcement,” according to Chemereinsky’s article in  the Los Angeles Times.
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  That issue aside, the possibility that Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer were  actively blocked by the government is far more problematic. “This is a US citizen arrested for an alleged crime on US soil: there is no  justification whatsoever for denying him his repeatedly exercised right to  counsel,” according to Greenwald.
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