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My advice to my son has always been: if you’re arrested for any reason, whether you did the thing or not, you become a Pokémon named ‘lawyer’.
You need to specificly say "I want to speak with my lawyer", cops in the usa have been able to deny someone saying something like 'dont I get to speak to a lawyer' isnt specific enough
Dude got denied once for saying "I want a lawyer, dog." The courts upheld the he might have been referring to a dog that is a lawyer.
This is better advice than staying silent (at least in the US). If you stay silent, then police can keep questioning you for as long as you're silent and they want to. When you say you want a lawyer, then they're required to stop questioning you.
In other words, the act of remaining silent is not enough to invoke your right to silence. You need to break your silence in order to invoke your right to silence
It took me a while! "Lawyer....", "law.....yer..." "laaaawyir".
No matter the question: ‘lawyi… lawyi… lawyer!’
Just be careful not to evolve into a LawyerDawg
For anyone who doesn't get this, a person wanted to envoke their right to an attorney and asked for his "lawyer dawg." The police maliciously interpreted this as asking for a lawyer dog, which you have no right to, and the court agreed that that was a reasonable assumption and that the guy did not envoke his right to an attorney, so they did nothing wrong by not providing one.
Surely that can't be true?!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/suspect-asks-for-a-lawyer-dawg-judge-says-he-asked-for-a-lawyer-dog.html
That is so ridiculous 😂
Justice isn't blind, she never existed.
Lawyer?! I hardly even know her.