While glancing at Google News tonight I saw something that concerns me, namely, this headline from the Washington Post:
Supreme Court: Suspects must invoke right to remain silent in interrogations
The meat of the article is summed up by this quote:
“Today’s decision turns Miranda upside down,” wrote Sotomayor, who accused the majority of casting aside judicial restraint. “Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent — which, counter-intuitively, requires them to speak. At the same time, suspects will be legally presumed to have waived their rights even if they have given no clear expression of their intent to do so.”
In an earlier Blog Post I posted a link to a video which explained why you didn’t want to talk to the police, ever. Now it seems that you have to, in order to tell them that you don’t want to talk to them.
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