United States v. Ronald William Pelton

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• finding that petitioner was an educated man tends to support a finding that petitioner’s will was not overborne
• stating that the governmental interest in gathering foreign intelligence is of “paramount importance” to national security interests
• noting that in noncustodial interrogations, \the absence of Miranda warnings is one `factor' to be considered in assessing the voluntariness of a confession\
• noting that \`a law enforcement officer may properly tell the truth to the accused'\ (quoting United States v. Williams, 479 F.2d 1138, 1140 (4th Cir. 1973)
• holding FISA “compatible with the Fourth Amendment,” despite allowing surveillance on “less than traditional probable cause standard,” because “FISA’s numerous safeguards provide sufficient protection for the rights guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment”
• travel-ling to Vienna and walking in a park for three days for the purpose of meeting a foreign agent constituted attempted espionage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).