{"id":9038,"date":"2013-07-11T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:52:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9038","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkpiccione.com\/10-reasons-not-talk-police\/\">Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police<\/a> by Kirk Piccione and Professor Dwayne at Regent University Law School:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REASON #1: Talking to the police CANNOT help you. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #2: Even if you\u2019re guilty, and you want to confess and get it off your chest, you still shouldn\u2019t talk to the police. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #3: Even if you are innocent, it\u2019s easy to tell some little white lie in the course of a statement. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #4: Even if you are innocent, and you only tell the truth, and you don\u2019t tell any little white lies, it is possible to give the police some detail of information that can be used to convict you. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #5: Even if you were innocent, and you only tell the truth, and you don\u2019t tell any little white lies, and you don\u2019t give the police any information that can be used against you to prove motive or opportunity, you still should not talk to the police because of the possibility that the police might not recall your statement with 100% accuracy. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #6: Even if you\u2019re innocent, and you only tell the truth, and your entire statement is videotaped so that the police don\u2019t have to rely on their memory, an innocent person can still make some innocent assumption about a fact or state some detail about the case they overheard on the way to the police station, and the police will assume that the only way the suspect could have known that fact or that detail was if he was, in fact, guilty. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #7: Even if you\u2019re innocent, and you only tell the truth in your statement, and you give the police no information that can be used against you, and the whole statement is videotaped, a suspect\u2019s answers can still be used against him if the police (through no fault of their own) have any evidence that any of the suspect\u2019s statements are false (even if they are really true). <\/p>\n<p>REASON #8: The police do not have authority to make deals or grant a suspect leniency in exchange for getting a statement. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #9: Even if a suspect is guilty, and wants to confess, there may be mitigating factors which justify a lesser charge. <\/p>\n<p>REASON #10: Even for a completely honest and innocent person, it is difficult to tell the same story twice in exactly the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}