For Sarah Craber, the procedure offers peace of mind.

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"In the back of your mind you can always take the band off, " he says of the lap-band procedure.

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He changed his mind partly because most American police forces, which originally opposed the Miranda warning, now embrace it as a useful procedure which reduces courtroom disputes about the voluntariness of confessions.

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