Ed Meese And The "Poor Man's Fifth"
July, 1987
The "Miranda" decision was wrong.... Its practical effect is to prevent the police from talking to the person who knows the most about the crime--namely, the perpetrator.--Attorney General Edwin Meese IIIIt is all too easy to characterize Attorney General Edwin Meese III as an intentionally evil man, possessed, so to speak, by a demon sent from the section of hell reserved for the damnably intolerant. This view of Meese, however, lacks the compassion we've rushed to demonstrate to his...
