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dc.contributor.authorBrennan-Marquez, Kiel
dc.date2021-11-25T13:35:17.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:57:05Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:57:05Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-09T06:56:55-07:00
dc.identifieryjolt/vol15/iss2/3
dc.identifier.contextkey4297258
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7785
dc.description.abstractThe last decade has witnessed a profusion of commentary on “mind-reading” devices. Instead of offering traditional legal arguments against such devices, most scholars have simply assumed their use to be unconstitutional. The consensus is clear: by essentially “speaking for” defendants, mind-reading devices offend the basic spirit of the Self-Incrimination Clause. In this Article, I defend the constitutionality of mind-reading on both doctrinal and normative grounds. First, I reconstruct the Court’s self-incrimination jurisprudence to demonstrate that evidence is only “testimonial” — and thus, privileged — if it involves a “communicative act” from the suspect. Whether or not particular types of mind-reading devices would elicit “communicative acts” is a narrow, technology-specific question. And at least some mind- reading devices almost certainly would not – making their use permissible under the Fifth Amendment. Second, I defend this doctrinal result against normative attack. Many different accounts of the privilege’s theoretical underpinnings exist. I evaluate these accounts in turn, arguing that some are inapposite to mind reading, while others fail in a deeper sense.
dc.titleA MODEST DEFENSE OF MIND READING
dc.source.journaltitleYale Journal of Law and Technology
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:57:05Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjolt/vol15/iss2/3
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1086&context=yjolt&unstamped=1


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