So we’ve gone up from 4th Amendment violations to the 5th Amendment. Soon it’ll be 6th, and the 13th is a little shaky.

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    When someone requests an attorney, all questioning stops dead. If they continue on, it becomes fruit of the poisonous tree.

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      Believe it or not but most cops aren’t as virtuous as Stabler and don’t have a pretty blonde DA around to challenge them over what they would be willing to do to seek justice. And a “good” attorney can often work around that.

      But also, that doesn’t change anything. From skimming the article, it sounds like he wasn’t being interrogated without a lawyer. He was just being left to languish in confinement. Which… is how the us legal system “works”.

      This is less “ice are bad” and more “all cops are bastards”

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      If they continue on, it becomes fruit of the poisonous tree.

      so just shoot them or strangle them in holding. That’s what is going on.