Posted: April 07, 2004
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.