On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:30:57 +1000 "James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
> So: Don't talk to police about the contents of your drive, or indeed > anything of which they might potentially disapprove. I believe that you meant to say, "Don't talk to the police at all," which should be standard policy for anyone who finds themselves under arrest. There is no advantage in talking to the police once you have been arrested, nothing you say will help in your defense and you are not going to talk your way out of an arrest. The odds are stacked against you during a police interview -- you are talking to people who have been trained to extract confessions, who are being paid to sit there interrogating you, and who will pick through what you say to find incriminating statements. Stay quiet, speak only to your attorney, and let your attorney speak on your behalf; you cannot be penalized for exercising your rights, nor can the fact that you refused to speak be introduced as evidence against you (at least in the United States). -- Ben -- Benjamin R Kreuter UVA Computer Science brk...@virginia.edu KK4FJZ -- "If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." - George Orwell
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