News and Developments 2004: Foreign Nationals

Recent Editorials on the March 2004 Decision by the International Court of Justice



April 16, 2004:     Austin American-Statesman

Miranda offers simple fix to consular rights problem


Exhibit A in how emotion can cloud reason is the political yammering over an International Court of Justice ruling that the United States had violated a treaty guaranteeing foreign criminal defendants the right to consult with their governments.

This rather simple legal matter is cloaked in too many layers of complexity.