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Salinas isn't about silence. It's about selective silence. Salinas started talking to the cops, voluntarily. Then they started asking questions about the crime
by rosser 13y ago
Salinas isn't about silence. It's about selective silence. Salinas started talking to the cops, voluntarily. Then they started asking questions about the crime of which he was later convicted, and he clammed up.
If he'd not opened his yap in the first place, this wouldn't even be a thing.
- mpyne 13y agoAnd according to Alito he would have been fine even after clamming up... if only he'd mentioned that he was invoking his Fifth Amendment rights, so it's not even just about silence. If you confirm your name to a cop after this ruling, have you permanently waived your requirement to be Mirandized?