Re:Suspect Has Witness that Doesn't Lie: His Metrocard
by mechanical_fish on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @10:32AM
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During the interrogation... he asked the police to check it.
That's the scary part of the story, all right. Perhaps it's time to repost a surprisingly useful BoingBoing link:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.ht...
Attention Conservation Notice: The theme of this video, in free-verse form, is:
Don't talk to the police.
Don't talk to the police.
That's what lawyers are for.
The Fifth Amendment is your friend.
Don't talk to the police.
If you don't just nod when you read this you really need to watch the video.
Re:Suspect Has Witness that Doesn't Lie: His Metrocard
by elai on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @01:04PM
(#369715)
How about Canada?
Re:Suspect Has Witness that Doesn't Lie: His Metrocard
by mechanical_fish on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @01:17PM
(#369732)
An excellent question. I'd love to see the equivalent of this argument for other countries, just out of curiosity. Any Canadian lawyers in the house?
Bus to "Payomatic".
Buddy cashes check, photograph taken, Jones visible in background of photo.
Subway to girlfriend.
So everything fits. The truly scary part of the story:
During the interrogation, he said, it occurred to him that he had used his MetroCard on the bus and the subway, and he asked the police to check it. A detective took the card briefly, and then gave it back to him, and there was no further discussion about the card, he said.