Word: joe
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...which may indicate how badly a suspect needs a lawyer. But if he demands one, argues Inbau, "the interrogator may suggest that the subject save himself or his family the expense." He should then confidently add: "Joe, I'm only looking for the truth, and if you're telling the truth, that's it. You can handle this yourself...
...stalking his game." They prescribe absolute privacy in a small, bare, windowless room. "Display an air of confidence in the subject's guilt," they urge. Appear to have "all the time in the world." The interrogator strips the suspect's status away by using his first name-"Joe" rather than "Mister"-and slowly moves his chair "closer, so that, ultimately, one of the subject's knees is just in between the interrogator's two knees." Says he: "Your mouth's very...
Inbau recommends the sympathetic pitch that anyone in the same fix "might have done the same thing," that the crime had a "morally acceptable motive." Also helpful: "Condemn the victim." With a rapist, for example, the detective should indignantly exclaim: "Joe, no woman should be on the street alone at night looking as sexy as she did. Even here today she's got on a low-cut dress that makes visible damn near all of her breasts. That's wrong...
Only the Truth. If Joe refuses to admit statutory rape, for example, the interrogator can always claim that the girl is accusing him of forcible rape. Result: "The subject will usually react immediately by making a denial of any force, while at the same time admitting the act of intercourse itself." If Joe still refuses to talk, "point out the incriminating significance of his refusal." Indeed, the law assumes that failure to deny a serious accusation is unnatural, and therefore a sign of guilt, known as an "adoptive admission." As one judge put it: "If you say anything, it will...
...field, the intermittent rain didn't prevent the Crimson defense from playing an errorless game. In the second inning, a spectacular barehand play by third baseman Jim Tobin on a Cornell bunt and a pickoff throw to second base by catcher Joe O'Donnell nullifield two singles, a balk, and a walk, killing the Ithacans' only potentially big rally. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, lf 4 1 1 0 Neville, cf 3 0 2 1 Grate, ss 4 0 0 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 1 0 Tobin, 3b 2 0 0 0 Welz...