If the suspect was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or suffered from an emotional or mental condition that substantially impaired their capacity to make rational decisions, the courts may well decide that the suspect's waiver was not knowing and intelligent.

In the episode " Who and What ", after the FBI's Jack Malone slams a suspect's head on the table, Brass rushes in and pulls him off, saying " If you want to rendition him to Gitmo, be my guest.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a " State Sponsor of Terrorism ," however, many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion, stating that " If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea.

If the defendant asserts his right to remain silent all interrogation must immediately stop and the police may not resume the interrogation unless the police have " scrupulously honored " the defendant ’ s assertion and obtain a valid waiver before resuming the interrogation.

# Did the police scrupulously honor the defendant's assertion of his right to remain silent? If “ Yes ” go to 10 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

" If the firm " actually copied code from a GPL'd program, such a suit would be a perfectly ordinary assertion of copyright, which most private firms would defend if the shoe were on the other foot.

If Canada holds that the principle of natural prolongation applies to the Juan de Fuca Canyon on its Pacific Ocean coast, the assertion could undermine Canada's argument in the Gulf of Maine boundary dispute.

If no arguments were given to prove this proposition, it would just be a bare assertion.

If a passage is unclear or an assertion seems questionable, the copy editor may ask the writer to clarify it.

If the partial derivative with respect to is denoted with a subscript, then the symmetry is the assertion that the second-order partial derivatives satisfy the identity

y ) is defined as the assertion: If we replace the equation

If it is simply an assertion of a product benefit, by this standard, any assertion about a product could be called a USP.

If there are in fact theropods from the Triassic, which display a suite of par-avian characters, the assertion that conferring taxonomic validity to Protoavis scuttles theropod origin, is found to be lacking in realism.

If the incident had been an isolated example of Japanese assertion and Chinese resistance, a general understanding might have been reached.

If this analysis of the reporter's assertion were correct, then since Jones is innocent, we should take her to mean what the discoverer of Smith's body meant, that whoever murdered Smith is insane.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If cave art is ambiguous on this matter then cuneiform inscriptions which hold the earliest writings seem to have been initially for non-fiction.

If the WBS element names are ambiguous, a WBS dictionary can help clarify the distinctions between WBS elements.

If genre functions as a taxonomic classification system, it could constrain individual creativity, since " the presence of many of the conventional features of a genre will allow a strong genre identification ; the presence of fewer features, or the presence of features of other genres, will result in a weak or ambiguous genre identification " ( Schauber 403 ).

If a rook is unmoved and can still castle, yet there is more than one rook on that side, FEN notation as traditionally interpreted is ambiguous.

If an instrument payable to two or more persons is ambiguous as to whether it is payable to the persons alternatively, the instrument is payable to the persons alternatively.

The last part reading If an instrument payable to two or more persons is ambiguous as to whether it is payable to the persons alternatively, the instrument is payable to the persons alternatively contemplates use of and / or, and how an item with those words written is to be accepted ( use of or prevails ).

If the dispute arises because some aspect of the constitution is ambiguous or unclear, the ultimate resolution of the crisis often establishes a precedent for the future.

If the input files contain lines beginning with the separator character, the output columns can become ambiguous.

If the consumer is a net saver, an increase in interest rate will have an ambiguous effect on the current consumption. If the consumer is a net borrower, an increase in interest rate will reduce his current consumption. A consumer maybe a net saver or a net borrower.

If no domain of discourse has been identified, a proposition such as is ambiguous.

" If words were ambiguous and best studied not in terms of their " content " but in terms of their effects in a given context and if the effects were often subliminal, the same might be true of other human artifacts, the wheel, the printing press, the telegraph and the TV ".

If the guess is ambiguous, the Master will ask the Student questions about the guess until it is clear.

If there are base class methods overridden by the derived class, the method call behaviour is ambiguous.

If a person uses the term " DBCS Enablement " for software internationalization, they are using ambiguous terminology.

* If neither y nor y and z can be read as in apposition to x, then both forms of the list are unambiguous ; but if y or y and z can be read as in apposition to x, then both forms of the list are ambiguous.

If an art film has a story, it is usually a drifting sequence of vaguely defined or ambiguous episodes.

In a recent article, researcher Hanan Bar ( חנן בר ) summed up the ambiguous Israeli attitude to Germany: " If the average Israeli happens to see a football match between Germany and Holland, he would automatically root for the Dutch.

If a Bell state is measured from this ambiguous class, the teleportation event fails.

However, in social dilemmas this information might produce ambiguous results: If I know that most people cooperate I may be tempted to act selfishly?

If present at birth, congenital adrenal hyperplasia can be one of the causes, since in this condition the adrenal gland of the female fetus produces additional androgens and the newborn baby has ambiguous genitalia which are not clearly male or female.

If the book had done nothing more, it would still have conferred inestimable benefit on political economists by its clear exposition of the true nature and meaning of the ambiguous term law.

storyline What If Spider-man had married the Black Cat ?, after Black Cat is accidentally killed by the Paladin, Silver Sable and Spider-Man enter into a romantic relationship due to their shared grief over the loss of their loved ones ; Uatu the Watcher leaves it ambiguous whether this relationship will work out or not.

; Deference to Administrative Interpretations ( US Chevron deference ): If a statute administered by an agency is ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the courts will defer to the agency's reasonable interpretation of the statute.