Police in Hartford, Connecticut didn't read a 34-year-old man his Miranda rights when they showed up at his apartment in December 2015 after receiving a call that the man had human skeletal remains in his home and so prosecutors can't use what cops found there, a judge has ruled.
The man, Amador Medina, told police that he practiced Palo Mayombe, a syncretistic religion common in the Caribbean that fuses West African animism with certain Roman Catholic beliefs. He said he was using the bones, w
Police in Hartford, Connecticut didn't read a 34-year-old man his Miranda rights when they showed up at his apartment in December 2015 after receiving a call that the man had human skeletal remains in his home and so prosecutors can't use what cops found there, a judge has ruled.
The man, Amador Medina, told police that he practiced Palo Mayombe, a syncretistic religion common in the Caribbean that fuses West African animism with certain Roman Catholic beliefs. He said he was using the bones, w…
