# "Supreme Court just took away your right to \[a lawyer for\] your interrogation"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-just-took-away-your-right-to-a-lawyer-for-your-interrogation/497753>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 27, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-just-took-away-your-right-to-a-lawyer-for-your-interrogation/497753 "2009-05-27T00:17:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-just-took-away-your-right-to-a-lawyer-for-your-interrogation/497753/21 "2009-05-29T15:36:14Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> For a useful summary, see [The Art of Confessions: A Comparative Look at The Law of Confessions – Canada, England, The United States and Australia](http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca/Publications/Reports/ES%20PAPER%20CONFESSIONS%20REVISED.pdf) (pdf), at pp. 5-9.

Sweet. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-just-took-away-your-right-to-a-lawyer-for-your-interrogation/497753/22 "2009-05-29T20:03:44Z")

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you’re welcome.

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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-just-took-away-your-right-to-a-lawyer-for-your-interrogation/497753/23 "2009-06-04T00:19:45Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> but … even if you are as innocent as a babe still in the womb NEVER answer anything other than properly identifying yourself until you have a lawyer representing you … and NEVER EVER EVER discuss ANY aspect of your case with ANYBODY EXCEPT YOUR LAWYER. Especially not your cellmate.
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> Once they have you sitting in that chair, arrested or not, police have no requirement NOT to lie to you, and if they can manage to get you saying something innocent that could possibly get misconstrued, they will. And then they will use it against you. That is simply how it goes. They will always make the assumption that you are guilty of _something_ and proceed accordingly. I don’t blame most cops for taking that view, but it is hard on those of us that are actually innocent.
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> Granted we have come a long way from back rooms and rubber hoses, but they can keep you sitting in that annoying little room for hours and hours.

I’d take rubber hoses over water boarding any day. One day this is going to come back and bite us all in the ass.

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