{"id":1170,"date":"2008-12-30T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2008-12-30T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T13:12:15","slug":"just-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1170","title":{"rendered":"Just Shut Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At that point, I had the right to remain silent \u2026 but not the ability.<\/em>  Ron White<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuccille.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html\">Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn&#8217;t talk to the police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~45 minutes of video of a defense lawyer and a cop explaining why anyone in the US should never, never, never talk to the police.  I assume this is in the context of being a possible suspect rather than a witness, but I am not a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:  even if you are innocent, anything you say can be used against you \u2014 in ways you might not be able to see.  One pitfall: there are literally <em>thousands<\/em> of laws of which you might be guilty, and to which you might inadvertently confess, in making a statement.  I&#8217;ve also been told by a lawyer that you should not invite the police into your residence, for the same reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At that point, I had the right to remain silent \u2026 but not the ability. Ron White Eight reasons even the innocent shouldn&#8217;t talk to the police ~45 minutes of video of a defense lawyer and a cop explaining why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,63],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-video","tag-fifth-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}