“Former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese has noted that the average American has “little or no hope of knowing all of… — James Duane Attorney general Copy Share Image
“judges, for many years, have given police officers encouragement and incentives to engage in all sorts of extraordinary deception when they are… — James Duane Innocent people Copy Share Image
“Out of hundreds of innocent people in the United States who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by DNA evidence, 76 percent… — James Duane Innocent people Copy Share Image
“Supreme Court held that you can be convicted and imprisoned for committing a crime even if you had no criminal intent and… — James Duane Crime Copy Share Image
“and that perhaps the circumstantial evidence against him or her is fairly powerful after all. But” — James Duane Copy Share Image
“That is why police officers, like all humans, are subject to a powerful phenomenon that psychologists call confirmation bias. This means that… — James Duane Police officers Copy Share Image
“the deck is stacked heavily against you, and you have no idea what you are up against.” — James Duane Copy Share Image
“The other problem is that they are working within a legal system that is highly imperfect. That is not their fault, because… — James Duane Legal system Copy Share Image
“You Must Explicitly Invoke Your Constitutional Rights” — James Duane Constitutional rights Copy Share Image
“The most recent and comprehensive investigation, which took a careful look at 250 prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence, found that 16 percent… — James Duane Men and women Copy Share Image
“police officers, like all humans, are subject to a powerful phenomenon that psychologists call confirmation bias. This means that after they have… — James Duane Failure Copy Share Image
“the United States Congress was passing a new criminal law once a week on average.7 It has been reported that the problem… — James Duane Criminal law Copy Share Image
“Because of laws like these and countless others, legal experts now agree that just about everybody in the nation, whether they know… — James Duane Police officer Copy Share Image
“If you talk to the police for three hours and give them three hundred details that would all tend to support your… — James Duane Police officers Copy Share Image
“Ask any experienced prosecutors or criminal defense attorneys, and they will all tell you the same thing: after a police officer arrests… — James Duane Criminal defense Copy Share Image
“One federal law makes it a crime “to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant… — James Duane Five years Copy Share Image
“Even innocent criminal suspects, when they are a little bit nervous, can say things that they did not mean to say—as we… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“Another federal law makes it a felony for any person “knowingly to deliver or cause to be delivered for transmission through the… — James Duane Business Copy Share Image
“The other party to the conversation—the police officer—is also human, just like you, and he or she can make mistakes as well.… — James Duane Failure Copy Share Image
“and they can be prosecuted or sued if they are caught using intentional deception to defraud you into giving up a mere… — James Duane Constitutional rights Copy Share Image
“All he needs to do is respectfully tell the police that he will not answer any questions and that he would like… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“And as we’ve seen, a jury can be persuaded that you lied about something when in fact you actually told the truth.… — James Duane Truth Copy Share Image
“And that is just the list of federal criminal statutes; the states have an even greater number of crimes on the books.” — James Duane Books Copy Share Image
