Comments on: Help Yourself to a Conviction http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/right-to-remain-silent/help-yourself-to-a-conviction/ The Legal Blog with the Really Low Standard of Review Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jackie Styles http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/right-to-remain-silent/help-yourself-to-a-conviction/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Jackie Styles Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:57 +0000 http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/?p=1167#comment-734 Cops are people. People repeating things or writing them down get them wrong. Right after you tell them or they witness it even. People lie too. So do a lot of cops, who are people. I see it every day. Cops are people. People repeating things or writing them down get them wrong. Right after you tell them or they witness it even.

People lie too. So do a lot of cops, who are people. I see it every day.

]]> By: Rick http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/right-to-remain-silent/help-yourself-to-a-conviction/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Rick Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000 http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/?p=1167#comment-732 Yikes! I promise to be more clear about things in the future: no one knows about the wallet going down the drain <em>because</em> the only two potential witnesses (Sammy Adams and Doris Daudy) never saw it happen. The wallet was never found. (I almost added that to the story, but decided to leave it out.) So no one but you, the reader, knows it actually went down the drain. The story is illustrative; not an account of an actual case. I probably would not have used full names if it were a real case (unless it had been previously published). I (apparently mistakenly) thought my choice of names would be a clue that this was not real. "Sammy" Adams is a beer. Since Doris is fictional, I don't know if she's <em>really</em> dowdy. And "Sammy was stumped" by Officer Steve "Stumper" Stevens. I made up the story to illustrate a point. Any defense attorney has no doubt experienced clients and witnesses saying "I didn't say that!" upon hearing the police report version of their "interview." This story was meant to illustrate why. Yikes! I promise to be more clear about things in the future: no one knows about the wallet going down the drain because the only two potential witnesses (Sammy Adams and Doris Daudy) never saw it happen.

The wallet was never found. (I almost added that to the story, but decided to leave it out.) So no one but you, the reader, knows it actually went down the drain.

The story is illustrative; not an account of an actual case. I probably would not have used full names if it were a real case (unless it had been previously published).

I (apparently mistakenly) thought my choice of names would be a clue that this was not real. “Sammy” Adams is a beer. Since Doris is fictional, I don’t know if she’s really dowdy. And “Sammy was stumped” by Officer Steve “Stumper” Stevens.

I made up the story to illustrate a point. Any defense attorney has no doubt experienced clients and witnesses saying “I didn’t say that!” upon hearing the police report version of their “interview.” This story was meant to illustrate why.

]]> By: Don Waggoner http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/right-to-remain-silent/help-yourself-to-a-conviction/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Don Waggoner Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:52:21 +0000 http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/?p=1167#comment-731 Whoa! Not so fast. I want the "rest of the story." You mentioned a storm drain. A wallet in a storm drain. How did this turn out? Whoa! Not so fast. I want the “rest of the story.” You mentioned a storm drain. A wallet in a storm drain. How did this turn out?

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