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So when someone's arrested
they're read their Miranda Rights; that's their right to remain silent,
anything you say can and will be used against you. What people don't realize is that if you
invoke the right to an attorney at that point
it's a lot stronger than invoking your right to remain silent.
If you invoke your right to an attorney the officer can no longer
ask you any other questions
until you have an attorney present whereas if you invoke your right to remain silent
the officer can still prod and
ask questions and try to get you to waive your rights.
You have to be careful because they have an
agenda; they want to see if crime took place. If they feel in their heart of hearts
a crime took place all their questions are going to be pointed
towards the hypothesis that you committed a crime.
In dealing with them you don't make them upset so that they go out of their way
to bust you,
you wanna be respectful. When it comes to questions, if you did do something wrong
or you feel like you're on the borderline of
doing something wrong
you really don't want to answer any questions without an attorney present.
You should respectfully decline and ask to speak to an attorney
before answering the question, say "Look I'm available to answer questions I just
want an attorney present."
A lot of times when an individual says that they'll balk and say "Well this is your only time
to come clean or talk to us,
we're not going to talk to you later,"
but by invoking the right to an attorney people preserve their rights.