"No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" unless they don't say some magic words at the right time. Yeah now I remember in the Federalist Papers where they added that second part...
Silence Dogood? More like Silence Gojail.
Now if you just get up and walk out of a "voluntary" interview that you can "leave at any time" you're sending yourself to prison. That's a right we don't have any more.
The FF's would be rolling in their grave if they knew people today are forced to answer "when did you stop beating your wife" with a ritualistic formula so as to not go to jail.
"The case involved an early 1990s murder where Salinas voluntarily agreed to answer questions by the police. The questioning went on for at least an hour with no problems. Then, the police asked some more incriminating questions about bullets found at the crime scene. At that point, Salinas completely stopped speaking. Prosecutors on the case later used that silence against Salinas, saying it demonstrated his guilt. The tactic worked and Salinas was found guilty of murder."
"Court said that this right to remain silent is not self-executing and that it must be claimed before it can arise."
"No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" unless they don't say some magic words at the right time. Yeah now I remember in the Federalist Papers where they added that second part...
Silence Dogood? More like Silence Gojail.
Now if you just get up and walk out of a "voluntary" interview that you can "leave at any time" you're sending yourself to prison. That's a right we don't have any more.
The FF's would be rolling in their grave if they knew people today are forced to answer "when did you stop beating your wife" with a ritualistic formula so as to not go to jail.