“The courts have already found that simply not answering questions post-arrest can be used as evidence of guilt. But what happens when you ask for legal representation before the police have arrested or detained you?  The prosecution argued that Okatan’s request for a lawyer was itself an admission of guilt. While we all supposedly have a right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, the government (meaning law enforcement and prosecutors — both operatives of the state) have been poking and prodding at the amendments’ weak spots over the years, turning these ‘rights’ into privileges that have to be asserted loudly, unwaveringly and timed correctly. What a joke.”

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130827/09282724323/not-content-with-gutting-fourth-amendment-government-continues-its-attack-fifth-sixth.shtml

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