If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of. Really. I promise. Don’t worry.
To continue on the theme,
if they do “offer me a soda” in the station, after I have requested my laywer, are they allowed to use the discarded bottle to collect DNA?
Well, I believe that premise may depend somewhat on your crime day wardrobechoice.
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Fingerprints are generally very unreliable. Sometimes you get luck and get a good one on the scene but, for the most part, they’ll be partial prints and smudges. If you’ve ever been fingerprinted (or done fingerprinting), think about how much care is taken (and how many retries it often takes) to get good prints. On ink cards, most cops and such will just say, “meh, good enough” because they don’t feel like starting a new card all over again. With the new electronic fingerprinting tools that submit to IAFIS, the system will look at what seems to be a perfectly good print and say (something like) “F you. Do it again. And again. And again.”
Sweaty fingers (which most people have during the commission of a crime? FAIL