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It's always a good idea to ask for a lawyer (and to demand that the embassy of your home country gets informed). However, the consequences of not talking can v
by cedilla 2y ago
It's always a good idea to ask for a lawyer (and to demand that the embassy of your home country gets informed).
However, the consequences of not talking can vary wildly. In some countries, police might torture you. Some countries might hold silence against you or even punish you for withholding exculpatory information.
- giraffe_lady 2y ago> In some countries, police might torture you. Yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
- bilbo0s 2y agoTrue. Police use torture even here in the US.
- FuriouslyAdrift 2y agoAlso remember outside the US, there's limited to no protection against repeated prosecution. Only 50-ish countries have protections against "double jeopardy" written into their constitutions and there's lots of exclusions. Italy is infamous for trying people over and over for the same offense until they get a conviction.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoI think these are just slightly different approaches to the same goals of carceral malfeasance. You don't need to try someone more than once if you can torture a confession out of them. You don't need to torture a confession out of someone if you can try them as many times as you want. Cops and prosecutors will use the tools available to them, the specifics of the tools varying a lot by local history and governance traditions.
- cedilla 2y agoItaly does have protection from repeated prosecution as a fundamental right (not least due to the directly binding charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union). And as the US population currently finds out, what's written in a constitution is not worth much when there is inadequate rule of law (and the US constitution offers comparatively few protections as is).