You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

by James J. Duane

Certainly there are some who are less honest than most, but that is probably no more true of police officers than it is of other professions. Then why do I say that you cannot believe one word of what they tell you? Because the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts. They are only following orders, because that is the way our corrupt legal system is designed to work.

Intro

If you give the police information that turns out to be inaccurate, and the police mistakenly believe that you were lying to them on purpose, that fact can be devastating to your defense in three different ways.