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The prosecutors said that on May 4 — he was arrested about 11 p.m. the day before — Mr. Shahzad, without a lawyer, knowingly waived his Miranda rights and his right to a speedy appearance before a judge.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have said in court papers that Mr. Arbabsiar, 56, who was arrested on Sept. 29 at Kennedy International Airport, repeatedly waived his rights to have a lawyer and to a speedy appearance in court.
After his arrest, Mr. Shahzad began cooperating with federal authorities almost immediately, and was questioned for two weeks by F.B.I. agents and prosecutors, during which time he regularly signed documents waiving his right to a lawyer and a speedy appearance before a judge.
Mr. Shahzad, who has been charged with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction in the Times Square bomb attempt, has waived his right to remain silent and his right to a speedy appearance before a judge each day since his arrest, Mr. Bharara said.
The hearing came after Mr. Shahzad indicated he was ready to stop waiving his right to a speedy court appearance, people briefed on the matter said.
After that interrogation is over, the suspect, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, is expected to be advised of his right to a lawyer and speedy court appearance, and would eventually be brought to Manhattan for criminal prosecution.
During that time, the authorities have said, he "knowingly and voluntarily" waived his right to a lawyer and a speedy court appearance, "confessed to his own role in the plot to kill the ambassador" and provided "extremely valuable intelligence".
Under that model, Mr. Ruqai would be first questioned by American officials for intelligence purposes without being advised of his right to a lawyer or a speedy court appearance.
The defendant, Adis Medunjanin, was interviewed over two days in January 2010, waiving his Miranda rights and his right to a speedy court appearance, the office of the United States attorney in Brooklyn, now Loretta E. Lynch, has said in a court filing.
Over the last two weeks, the naturalized Pakistani immigrant charged with driving a crude car bomb into Times Square settled into something of a strange daily routine: He signed a piece of paper waiving his right to a lawyer and a speedy court appearance.
By waiving his right to a speedy court appearance and, most likely, lacking a formal agreement that a lawyer might have negotiated, he may have undermined any leverage he had, said Anthony S. Barkow, a former federal terrorism prosecutor in Manhattan who now runs a center on criminal law at New York University.
