Summary of James Duane's You Have the Right to Remain Innocent / IRB Media (ePub)

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 Police will lie to you. Do not talk to them. If you do, you are waiving your Fifth Amendment rights. I'm not talking about the innocent mistake of saying yes to a request from law enforcement when you really didn't mean to. I'm talking about the deliberate execution of a Fifth Amendment right by accident. If you are in the back seat of your car, and law enforcement comes asking questions, they are going to tell you that they have a search warrant. They are going to handcuff you, regardless of whether there is a warrant (which almost always there isn't). They are going to put you in the back of their police car, regardless of whether there is any evidence that you have broken the law or are even suspected of doing so. They are going to take you down to the station, regardless of whether there is any evidence that you did anything wrong. (And if there is, they will make sure that they never give it to you.

#2 If you are ever pulled over by the police, memorize the two questions listed above. They will cut through the police's lies and get you out of any trouble you might be in.

#3 If you are ever pulled over by the police, memorize the two questions listed above. They will cut through the police's lies and get you out of any trouble you might be in.

#4 Police are human, and therefore subject to the same confirmation bias as the rest of us. And because they are only human, they do not like to admit when they have made a mistake.