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He took it literally (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 105 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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’.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago*

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It took me a while! "Lawyer....", "law.....yer..." "laaaawyir".

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    No matter the question: ‘lawyi… lawyi… lawyer!’

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Just be careful not to evolve into a LawyerDawg

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Surely that can't be true?!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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