One part of the ruling I do agree with is the right not to contact your specific attourny. In DUI cases one way to get out of one was to contact your lawyer. Your lawyer being unavailable as it is the middle of the night they couldn't charge you with refusal to submit a breath sample. This ruling permits them to provide you with access to any lawyer if your lawyer is not available.
If the police could be trusted into not badgering the suspect into confessing than this law would likely be okay. If standards of what was acceptable during interrigation were very strict such as no yelling, threatening, repeating questions and maximum interagation times there likely would be no need for having a lawyer present.
So if all interviews are video tapes and judges through out any confessions that broke ethical rules then you might be okay. But as long as the Police to have the right to threaten you and attack you for hours you should have the right to protection.
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