Anthrax Suspect Takes His Own Life - Page 4

PursuitOfHappinessParty · 08-04-2008, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ibex

No it isn't. Reading them the charges and their rights when you take them into custody is. Show me where in the Constitution it says that somebody accused of felony murder has the right to be informed of the charges days or weeks before an arrest is made. As Harper pointed out, it's simply normal protocol for the US attorney to notify defense counsel in a Federal case of pending charges but this case isn't normal at all. Do you think they sent a letter to Ted Kozinsky's P.O. box to let him know that he was about to get nabbed for being the Unibomber?

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know.

I do know that if you have a warrant issued there must be notification. The statement that there were 'charges' would mean that a warrant was issued in which case they would've notified him. The police don't necessarilly arrest someone upon warrant issuance in hopes other arrangements are made.

Heretic · 08-04-2008, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by anhailla

They claim to have DNA evidence. His OWN brother said he was nuts.

One would think they would have been much more careful after wrongly investigating the other scientist.

This is an important point. That they fumbled so badlybefore this time they needed to redeem themselves and double check every fact in evidence of their new perp.

Ptech · 08-04-2008, 07:55 PM

The "DNA evidence" term is a bit misleading. All it means is that they have the DNA of the anthrax spores, and know that Ivins had access to it. No DNA of his on anythiing.

Apparently as many as a dozen other workers at the lab also had access to that strain of anthrax.

They need to close this case in the worst way, and have now succeeded, by hook or by crook.

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