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Is it legal to bug a jail cell?

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rigdawg2004

Junior Member
Can the police bug another inmates jail cell and while you are in there you talk about self-incriminating things. Can that be used against you in court if you have been read your miranda rights?
 


I AM ALWAYS LIABLE

Senior Member
rigdawg2004 said:
Can the police bug another inmates jail cell and while you are in there you talk about self-incriminating things. Can that be used against you in court if you have been read your miranda rights?

My response:

Why did you PURPOSEFULLY delete the State Name question?

IAAL
 
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seniorjudge

Guest
"Can the police bug another inmates jail cell and while you are in there you talk about self-incriminating things."
Yes.

"Can that be used against you in court if you have been read your miranda rights?"
Yes.

You have no expectation of privacy in the clink and thus the fourth amendment restrictions on the government's searching and seizing do not come into play.
 

rmet4nzkx

Senior Member
seniorjudge said:
"Can the police bug another inmates jail cell and while you are in there you talk about self-incriminating things."
Yes.

"Can that be used against you in court if you have been read your miranda rights?"
Yes.

You have no expectation of privacy in the clink and thus the fourth amendment restrictions on the government's searching and seizing do not come into play.
Just plug into "search" stupid criminals
have fun!
Here are a few to tickle your funny bone.
When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.

David Posman, 33, was arrested recently in Providence, R.I, after allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest four bags of money. It turned out they contained $800 in PENNIES, weighed 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so that police officers easily jumped him from behind. Drug-possession defendant

Christopher Johns, on trial in March in Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant. The prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant because a "bulge" in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun. Nonsense, said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that day in court. He handed it over so the judge could see it. The judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so hard he required a five-minute recess to compose himself.

Clever drug traffickers used a propane tanker truck entering El Paso from Mexico. They rigged it so propane gas would be released from all of its valves while the truck concealed 6,240 pounds of marijuana. They were clever, but not bright. They misspelled the name of the gas company on the side of the truck.

Oklahoma City -Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience store in a district court this week when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should of blown your [expletive] head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added, "-if I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton and recommend a 30-year sentence.

R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of identification. Gaitlin gave them his driver's license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen showed that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.

:D
 

CdwJava

Senior Member
rigdawg2004 said:
Can the police bug another inmates jail cell and while you are in there you talk about self-incriminating things. Can that be used against you in court if you have been read your miranda rights?
It is not uncommon for jail deputies to routinely activate the intercom in an inmate's cell to listen in on conversations. We also had tape recording equipment right there that we could jack in to the cell intercom.

Additionally, we could search the suspect's cell for written (non-legal) communication with little to no cause.

There is virtually no expactation of privacy while in custody.

- Carl
 

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