WASHINGTON AP – The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench as the court tried to hash out how long a suspect’s request for a lawyer should be considered valid by police and the courts.
The high court, listening to its first arguments of the session, seemed skeptical of defense lawyers’ arguments that police should be banned from talking to a suspect without a lawyer present because of the possibility that the suspect had asked for a lawyer in related – and even unrelated – cases years ago.
