It also extends through arrest, interrogation, trial, and sentencing. ... Although the first ten Amendments were intended to apply only to actions of the Federal Government, over the years the courts have been able to extend due process rights to those accused of violating state law via the 14th Amendment, that says, "No State shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." ... In theory, this means that the police may override your privacy concerns and conduct a search of your home, barn, car, boat, office, personal or business documents, bank account...

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At this point he has been taken in to be interrogated by Officer Della Pesca, who is a white officer who turns out to be racist. ... In the first trial Rubin was presented before an all-white jury that had no evidence but convicted them two of murder. ... By failing to Mirandize the suspects the prosecutor can't use anything the suspect says as evidence against the suspect at trial. ... This was the same witness the state let wrongly testify at the first trial. ...

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