Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...felony suspects had nonetheless made voluntary statements; the confessors ranged from 68.8% of robbery defendants to 82.6% of murder defendants. To the Supreme Court, on the other hand, such statistics may suggest that a suspect who waives his rights to silence is obviously in need of a lawyer to tell him precisely what he is waiving...
...spirit. For the Fifth Amendment does not automatically command police to inform anyone of his rights; the suspect himself must know those rights in order to exercise them. Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, interrogation is the most crucial phase of his entire case. And 60% of U.S. criminal defendants cannot afford lawyers...
Dominate the Subject. Can he? In Minneapolis in 1962, John F. Biron, 18, admitted mugging an old woman, who later died. Accidentally, his lawyer discovered a police tape that showed how Biron had endured hours of relentless grilling by two hypnotic detectives. ("You're the fella's gonna determine how long you're gonna be buried. You got the shovel. You're diggin' the hole.") Only the tape showed how the detectives had repeatedly lied in promising to send Biron to juvenile court, even though he was legally an adult. When he talked, they charged...
...relatives, and with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with Lawyer Warren Wolfson, who had once represented Danny in a personal-injury case. Because no one talked, Wolfson was finally able to get the whole crew released. By then, though, the cops had a theory: Danny & Co. had done Grace the favor of liquidating a hated husband...