This look right here? This is why we love sports.

Your 5th amendment rights are what you will invoke with the police. Your 6th amendment rights are what you will invoke at arraignment.

This is what "I am invoking my 5th amendment rights" means.

You are absolutely correct here, as my wording was unfortunate re: step vs. standard. More clear would've been "demonstrating PC is a step."

That is what "I'm invoking my 5th amendment rights" means.

Sean, I really, REALLY appreciate the tone, tenor, and information contained in the article. I think the teachable moment is a very, very important one, and it shocks me whenever I read these stories and a HS graduate somehow fails to know their most basic rights as a citizen. Thank you and keep up the good fight.

You are incorrect, but I appreciate the dialogue. In all your examples "probable cause" is a step, but by and of itself completely insufficient to enter a home.

Long since gone, but thanks for asking.

(I could go on. And on. Aaaaaaand on......)

This. Thank you.

Actually, they don't. Wasn't looking to get into a back-and-forth, just that "probable cause" is a specific term, and does not apply to entering your home. There is a much, much higher standard there than in your car, or on your person. If they have grounds they're coming in anyway, and if they don't, whatever they…

The standard for entering a home does not include probable cause. Warrant, invited, chasing a fleeing suspect, or witnessing criminal activity from a place readily accessible to the general public.
That is all.
I appreciate the advice you're giving, but clean that up.

You are the best.
+1

Re your last sentence: no, no she doesn't.

Please dismiss that tool above.

So.......ummm.....I'm right then? Because it sure as hell sounds like you agree with me.

So.......ummm.....I'm right then? Because it sure as hell sounds like you agree with me.

You keep making these drive-by insults with no basis whatsoever. Why? Do you disagree? Are you a cop? A prosecutor?
Seriously, I'm confused. I don't see anything remotely controversial in my OP. It is common for the general public to assume if a suspect doesn't talk to police, or a defendant doesn't testify that it…

Ya, I really hate mistyping while trying to make a point, but not sure what that has to do with the point. It is inarguable that invoking your 5th amendment rights is the ONLY advice a competent lawyer would give to a client.

You may think declining to be interviewed is somehow evidence of guilt - but you would 100% of the time advise your clients to do the same, regardless of their level of innocence. If you're doing your job that is. No one should ever, ever, ever talk to the police, ESPECIALLY if they are suspected of a crime. That is…