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1. Shortly there- after, he was arrested by the Federal Bureau
ASSIGNMENTWaronek owned and operated a trucking rig, transporting goods for L.T.L.
Perishables, Inc., of St. Paul, Minnesota. He accepted an offer to haul a trailer load of beef
from Illini Beef Packers, Inc., in Joslin, Illinois, to Midtown Packing Company in New York
City. After his truck was loaded with ninety-five forequarters and ninety-five hind- quarters
of beef in Joslin, Waronek drove north to his home in Watertown, Wisconsin, rather than
east to New York. While in Watertown, he asked employees of the Royal Meat Company to
butcher and prepare four hind- quarters of beef—two for himself and two for his friends. He
also offered to sell ten hindquarters to one employee of the company at an alarmingly
reduced rate. The suspicious employee contacted the authorities, who told him to proceed
with the deal. When Waronek arrived in New York with his load short nineteen
hindquarters, Waronek telephoned L.T.L. Perishables in St. Paul. He notified them “that he
was short nineteen hindquarters, that he knew where the beef went, and that he would
make good on it out of future settlements.” L.T.L. told him to contact the New York police,
but he failed to do so. Shortly there- after, he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and indicted for the embezzlement of goods moving in interstate commerce.
Explain whether Waronek was guilty of the crime of embezzlement.10. Four separate cases
involving similar fact situations were consolidated as they presented the same
constitutional question. In each case, police officers, detectives, or prosecuting attorneys
took a defendant into custody and interrogated him in a police station to obtain a
confession. In none of these cases did the officials fully and effectively advise the defendant
of his rights at the outset of the interrogation. Police interrogations produced oral
admissions of guilt from each defendant, as well as signed statements from three of them,
which were used to convict them at their trials. The defendants appeal, arguing that the
officials should have warned them of their constitutional rights and the consequences of
waiving them before the questionings began. It was contended that to permit any
statements obtained without such a warning violated their Fifth Amendment privilege
against self-incrimination. Were the defendants’ consti- tutional rights violated? Discuss.11.
Officer Cyril Rombach of the Burbank Police Department, an experienced and well-trained
narcotics officer, applied for a warrant to search several residences and automobiles for
cocaine, methaqualone, and other narcotics. Rombach supported his application with
information given to another police officer by a confidential informant of unproven
reliability. He also based the warrant application on his own observations made during an
extensive investigation: known drug offenders visiting the residences and leaving with

2. small packages, as well as a suspicious trip to Miami by two of the suspects. A State superior
court judge issued a search warrant to Rombach based on this information. Rombach’s
searches netted large quantities of drugs and other evidence, which produced indictments
of several suspects on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. The
defendants moved to exclude the evidence on the grounds that the search warrant was
defective in that Rombach had failed to establish the informant’s credibility and that the
information provided by the informant about the suspect’s criminal activity was fatally
stale. Explain whether the evidence should be excluded.