Evergreen post: a lawyer and a cop share an entertaining one-hour
law school lecture on why you should never ever give a statement to police (without a lawyer) when police are investigating a crime.
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@Felthry I don't think so, sadly.
The short version,
lawyer: "it's impossible to know what the law is, or how any statement you give will be used against you, regardless of your innocence."
Cop: "yeah we do everything we possibly can to get people to incriminate themselves."