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In January a Montana district judge handling the case of attempted-murder suspect Tessa Haley ruled that Miranda rights apply to all of a suspect’s multiple personalities. As “Martha,” Haley called 911 to say she’d stabbed her roommate, but when police arrived she denied knowledge of the call (or of anyone named Martha). After being arrested and advised of her rights, she requested that an attorney be present before further questioning; before one could be provided, however, she turned back into Martha and confessed again. Judge Thomas Honzel threw out the confession because it was made after Haley asked for a lawyer.
In November in Marked Tree, Arkansas, 33-year-old Michael Brown was charged with burglarizing a bank lobby after security cameras caught him making off with a clock radio and a fistful of Dum Dum suckers, which the bank keeps on hand for customers’ children. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, police followed a trail of Dum Dum wrappers down the street, across a set of railroad tracks, and into the trailer park where Brown lives.
In November in Recklinghausen, Germany (near Cologne), managers of the local zoo learned they’d broken the law by summarily dismissing a zookeeper who’d been caught barbecuing and eating seven animals on park grounds (five Tibetan mountain chickens and two Cameroonian sheep, all from the petting zoo). After a labor court hearing, the zookeeper was awarded six months’ severance pay.
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