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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’.
This is better advice than staying silent (at least in the US). If you stay silent, then police can keep questioning you for as long as you’re silent and they want to. When you say you want a lawyer, then they’re required to stop questioning you.
In other words, the act of remaining silent is not enough to invoke your right to silence. You need to break your silence in order to invoke your right to silence
It took me a while! “Lawyer…”, “law…yer…” “laaaawyir”.
No matter the question: ‘lawyi… lawyi… lawyer!’
You need to specificly say “I want to speak with my lawyer”, cops in the usa have been able to deny someone saying something like ‘dont I get to speak to a lawyer’ isnt specific enough
Dude got denied once for saying “I want a lawyer, dog.” The courts upheld the he might have been referring to a dog that is a lawyer.
Lawyer?! I hardly even know her.
Lawww Yerrr!
Lawyer!
Lawy lawy!
Lawwwyerrrrrrr!
…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).
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.
I’m sorry, “in a hobo”? I have literally never been more afraid to ask if this is a typo…
No typo. (Hobo as in garbage cart) It literally happened. They were classmates and lived in same apartment complex. He had been stalking her.
Phew. somehow that is a relief. What a sad story though
