(June 26, 2022 at 9:53 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Depends on the police department and jurisdiction, of course; police officers who violate the constitutional rights of others can and do get fired.
But that individual officer cannot be sued even if fired, and even then, there would be nothing stopping that officer from getting a law enforcement job in another district.
Violations of Miranda warnings and the ability to sue an officer or department that violates that right, is extremely vital to preventing a bully prosecutor or sympathetic judge to police, from railroading a suspect into prison. Please understand that public defenders DO NOT have the same budget to defend a defendant as the prosecutor can with basically an unlimited budget. This ruling will hurt the poor in all zip codes, but it also has the potential to bankrupt even an innocent middle class suspect. This is an extremely dangerous precedent.
There has been lots of proof in the past of coerced confessions which are basically false confessions because the innocent person is threatened with a more severe sentence than if they simply confess, even if it is something they did not do.
