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Short Circuit 393 | As Goes Maine So Goes the Constitution


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Your right to remain silent just got a little stronger in the Pine Tree State. We welcome on Carol Garvan of the Maine ACLU to discuss a recent ruling from the state’s highest court. Under police questioning a suspect asked about an attorney being present and whether he had to answer questions, but did so a bit ambiguously. Was that enough to invoke his rights under the Maine Constitution? Carol argued the case as an amicus to explain the high level of protection those rights receive in the state compared to what the U.S. Supreme Court has said about similar language in the U.S. Constitution. And the court agreed with her and her colleagues. She explains to us how the court came to its conclusion and what this means for other Mainers. Then IJ’s Daniel Woislaw tells us of another police encounter, this time at a parked car with heavily tinted windows in the District of Columbia. Could the police force the driver and passengers to roll their windows down? The judges say yes but disagree about why. It’s another example of the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test twisting and turning at the side of the road.

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