“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
“the deck is stacked heavily against you, and you have no idea what you are up against.” — James Duane Copy Share Image
“and that perhaps the circumstantial evidence against him or her is fairly powerful after all. But” — James Duane Circumstantial evidence Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court justices are able to decide fewer than 1 percent of all the appeals” — James Duane Constitution Copy Share Image
“the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts.” — James Duane Police Copy Share Image
“The first problem with the police is that they are only human. They cannot know everything.” — James Duane Human Copy Share Image
“The next time some police officer or government agent asks you whether you would be willing to answer a few questions about… — James Duane Next time 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 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 Officers Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is plain: you cannot safely trust a single word that you hear from the mouth of a police officer… — James Duane Bottom line 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
“If you give the police information that turns out to be inaccurate, and the police mistakenly believe that you were lying to… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“The Department of Justice has now served official notice that it believes the courts should allow a prosecutor to argue under any… — James Duane Fifth amendment Copy Share Image
“Memorize these two questions so you will not be tempted to answer any others: Who are you? What are you doing… — James Duane Doing right Copy Share Image
“Instead mention your Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, and tell the police that you want a lawyer. Is that honest? Not… — James Duane 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
“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
“You can also go to prison for up to six months for the unauthorized use of the character or the name Woodsy… — James Duane Coat of arms 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
“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
“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
“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
“And after Salinas, as we have seen, that means that you cannot simply remain mute in the face of police questioning, but… — James Duane 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
“As we will see, there are many different ways that the mere act of talking to the police can get you in… — James Duane 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 Congress Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your… — James Duane Common sense Copy Share Image
“if the police do not use deception to persuade you to make an outright confession, they might persuade you to give them… — James Duane Deception 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 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 Copy Share Image
“there are many ignorant sentimentalists who believe that our government is deserving of our loyal cooperation and support, and that every good… — James Duane Politics Copy Share Image
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg sensibly complained years ago about this very same statute and voiced her grave concern over what she called “the… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“been largely left in the hands of the lower courts, they have been so severely watered down that police officers can lie… — James Duane Police officers Copy Share Image
“First, you need to make sure that your silence is not held against you as evidence of your guilt if the case… — James Duane Silence 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
