BOSTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Accused shoe bomb suspect Richard Reid has lost a bid to have allegedly incriminating statements he made after his arrest last December tossed out, it was reported Friday.
A federal judge in Boston ruled investigators did not violate the alleged terrorist's constitutional rights to keep silent.
Reid was arrested Dec. 22 after allegedly attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight over the Atlantic by setting off explosives hidden in his shoes. The Paris to Miami flight was diverted to Boston after a struggle on the aircraft.
U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young ruled state police and federal agents "scrupulously honored" Reid's rights, even though when troopers asked him about 1 p.m. what happened on the plane, he said, "I have nothing else to say," according to Friday's Boston Herald.
Young said troopers respected his decision and four hours later, about 5 p.m., read him his Miranda rights for a third time inside the police barracks at Logan International Airport.
It was then he reportedly began answering questions willingly, talking for about two hours.
In a 25-page order, Young said investigators waited "long enough to demonstrate respect for his invocation of silence, but not so long as to wear down his resistance through the coercive effect of incarceration."
Young said comments the British national made after 5 p.m. were "too temporally removed" from his initial decision not to talk to constitute a violation of Reid's rights.
Reid faces trial in November on charges of attempting to kill the 197 people on board Flight 63. The flight crew and passengers on board the plane thwarted his alleged attempt to set fire to the explosives in his shoes.
