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How likely are you to remember your rights when you are losing your freedom?
by spacemanmatt 4y ago
How likely are you to remember your rights when you are losing your freedom?
- simonh 4y agoYou still have the rights though, and this ruling doesn't take them away. If you're not cautioned, anything you say still cannot be used against you. In many cases any un-cautioned incriminating but now inadmissible information you provide will so poison the prosecution case as to completely invalidate any case they try to bring.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoThe premise of un-Mirandized statements "poisoning" the prosecution is the rosiest view I have ever heard about getting arrested. That is exactly how it does not work. A defendant has to hire an attorney to have a chance getting such statements excluded, and publicity about the same could easily poison a jury pool.