Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11 (Inalienable Rights)

233 Pages·2008·1.22 MB·English

by  Alan M. Dershowitz

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is there a right to remain silent
?
i n a l i e n a b l e r i g h t s s e r i e s
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Is There a Right
to Remain Silent?
. . .
coercive interrogation and
the fifth amendment after 9/11
Alan M. Dershowitz
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2008
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ThisbookisdedicatedtomygreatteachersatBrooklyn
college who first stimulated myinterest inconstitu-
tional law. Among them were professors John Hope
Franklin, Elsa de Haas,John Hospers,Eric G.James,
Samuel Konefsky, MartinLandau, Charles Parkhurst,
BenjaminRivlin, Madeline Russell Robinton, Georgia
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Acknowledgments
. . .
My student assistants do not have a right to remain silent. They
are obliged to speak their minds and they do, with much appre-
ciation. Among those who spoke their minds as well as helped
with the research for this book were the following: Alexander
Blenkinsopp, Aaron Voloj Dessauer, Charles Johnson, Chaim
Kagedan, Nicholas Krasney, Curtis Leitner, Peter Mulcahy, and
Jessica Tisch.