Oddly, you have to actually assert that right in many jurisdictions. In the US, say something like "I plead the fifth" or "I choose to remain silent" and assert your right to an attorney, and shut up until the attorney comes and only speak at the discretion of the attorney. Just staying silent opens you up to attempted manipulation, whereas they must provide an attorney if requested and the attorney may have options to strike some of the manipulation while you wait for the attorney.
Don’t talk to the cops. Say you want a lawyer and will remain silent. They are not your friend. They have zero interest in “your side” of the story and only wish to gather info to arrest you. Once you’re arrested you are someone else’s problem and they don’t care.
In case you didn’t see it. DONT’T TALK TO COPS.
The answer is that most people have never been in a police interrogation and they think they can talk their way out of it if they just explain themselves enough.
It's panic thinking. And once you pop you don't stop.
If you're in a police interrogation room you have to assume and internally accept that you're getting charged with something, and not try to talk your way out of it.
People that think that police is a public service will try to convince cops to help them. It's not, ACAB is not an insult, its a warning
because criminals tend to be not that smart, and police (in civilized countries at least) are very well trained in interview techniques.
I always talk to the cops.
"So, interrogate here often?"
"That uniform really makes your eyes pop!"
"Wanna go to the cells, big guy?"
"I will confess if you can make me scream."
Our right to shut the fuck up is almost as important as the 1st right. We should use it more often.
Gotta take more Ritalin to keep me mute then
My advice to my son has always been: if you’re arrested for any reason, whether you did the thing or not, you become a Pokémon named ‘lawyer’.
That's not at all what happened. He spoke to detectives, and even allowed them to search his apartment to look for the victim (a woman he was falsely claiming he was friends with).
He was found guilty of her murder, and will be eligible for parole in 2041:
...the right to remain silent is literal. Don't do propaganda for cops and prosecutors. You can be completely silent; it is your right to, and you should exercise it (or reply "no comment", but literal silence falls under the right to remain silent too).
He didn't win though
I am familiar with the case in this picture. He hacked up a fellow college student and placed her body parts in a hobo. Both were graduating law school at the time. He is serving LWOP.
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