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Jeff Sessions: “If the presumption is these cases will be tried in civilian courts, then I do not know why the soldier he talks to on…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2009
If the presumption is these cases will be tried in civilian courts, then I do not know why the soldier he talks to on the battlefield is not instructed to give Miranda warnings.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions questions the need for Miranda warnings in military contexts if civilian trials are presumed.

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