Timeline for If a potential suspect wishes to speak to the police and can't afford a lawyer what is the safest way to do so?
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| Jan 13, 2020 at 15:11 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Jan 11, 2020 at 3:09 | comment | added | Greendrake | Why doesn't Bob just send the police an anonymous tip-off? | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 20:28 | answer | added | IllusiveBrian | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 20:14 | answer | added | Pete B. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 19:59 | answer | added | Iñaki Viggers | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:29 | comment | added | hszmv | @dsollen: Depending on the severity, the prosecutor may cut him a break and offer immunity for any crimes he committed in relationship to his testimony, but again that supposes that he did commit a crime. Do you know if he likely learned about this while engaged in a lesser crime or is he just properly paranoid (Nothing wrong with that with respect to the cops, and I say that to my cop brother's face all the time. Don't give them a reason.). | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:23 | comment | added | dsollen | @hszmv yes. Despite being innocent he feels there is a risk of accidentally being accused of the crime if he speaks with the police. Though I imagine the correct course of action would be the same if he were, say, guilty of another crime but still wished to share information. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:22 | comment | added | hszmv | @IñakiViggers: I assumed that the hypothetical person of interest is completely innocent but the nature of what he knows may make the police look at him with a more discerning eye then they previously were. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | dsollen | @hszmv I know a lawyer is not limited to a trial, but it is limited to an arrest. In my hypothetical Bob was never arrested, only questioned. As such I don't believe he has a right to a lawyer if he chooses to speak to the police. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | dsollen | @IñakiViggers let's say no, but he has some personal information that he thinks may point the police in the right direction that they are unlikely to otherwise know. Perhaps the associate told Bob that they were about to meet a third party shortly before they were murdered that Bob thus thinks should be investigated. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:16 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | Iñaki Viggers | Did the potential suspect in your hypothetical scenario have any role in the crime? | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 17:56 | comment | added | hszmv | Actually, you have a right to attorney upon arrest, not upon trial. The moment the cops read you your miranda rights, the only words out of your mouth should be "Lawyer?!" until someone in a suit introduces himself as a lawyer. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 17:48 | history | asked | dsollen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |