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Sunday, September 20, 2009

A 'Person of Interest' Cannot be Detained

The tragic murder of Yale medical student, Annie Le, has now resulted in the brief detention of a so-called "person of interest," Raymond Clark, III. The New Haven police went out of their way to label Clark a "person of interest" rather than a "suspect." They seem to deny that he has been "arrested." I understand why they choose to use this semantic slight of hand, but the Constitution does not recognize the involuntary detention of a person of interest. He has either been arrested or he hasn't.

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