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- From: mark@kraken.ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Staying out of jail
- Message-ID: <44046@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:00:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.052540.6852@fuug.fi>
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- In article <1993Jan24.052540.6852@fuug.fi> an7919@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >You are not a lawyer, and you don't understand how the legal system
- >works, regardless what grade you got in sophomore Poli. Sci 202. You
- >are in no position to make deals or decisions. Don't do or say
- >anything before talking to a lawyer.
-
- While certainly not suggesting you talk without a lawyer, there
- are degrees of ignorance about the how the legal system does
- work. I might suggest learning more, but then I'm not sure
- if "Knowlege is power" or "A little knowledge is a dangerous
- thing".
-
- Still this book I saw mentioned in the lastest issue of
- Whole Earth Review (#77 W92, p. 46) seemed tantalizing.
-
- The book is called
- Introduction to Criminal Evidence
- Jon R. Waltz, 1991, 460 pp.
- $38.95 ($42.95 postpaid) from Nelson-
- Hall/Order Dept. 111 N. Canal Street,
- Chicago, IL 60606; 312/930-9466
-
-
- From the review, [from the book]
- * The Impact of Miranda
- In _Miranda_ the Supreme Court said, "[I]t is
- impermissible to penalize an individual for excising
- his Fifth Amendment privilege whe he is under police
- custodial interrogation. The prosecution may not,
- therefore, use at trial the fact that he stood mute
- or claimed his privilege in the face of accusation."
-
- However, the procecution is free to introduce evidence
- of an accused's post-arrest silence to challenge his
- insistence at trial the he cooperated with the authorities
- at the scene of his arrest.
-
- and
-
- * Reaction to Accusation
- An adoptive or implied confession may occur when an
- unmistakably accusatory statement is made in the
- suspect's hearing and he either remains silent, which
- creates an inference that he adopts the accusation as
- true, or make an equivocal response instead of a strong
- denial that would normally be expected from an innocent
- person.
-
-
- What can be used in court and what may lead the police to
- have a keen interest in you are two diffent things.
-
- mark
-