United States v. Attardi

I dissent.

The very techniques of interrogation condemned by the Supreme Court in Miranda v Arizona, 384 US 436, 16 L Ed 2d 694, 86 S Ct 1602 (1966), as being destructive of an accused’s free choice to silence are present in this case in abundance. The record reflects that: (1) The accused was interrogated by seven or eight (four teams of two each) military intelligence agents on at least four separate occasions during the hours 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., April 11, 1969, until he finally confessed sometime between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m., on the 12th; (2) despite his refusal at one point during the…