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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Unpossible! Hollywood gives bad advice in self defense scenarios!
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 22:02:19 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>May 11, 2025 at 8:35:08 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

>>Fiction isn't fact? Say it ain't so.

>>When the heroic defense attorney busts into the interrogation room,
>>forcing the cops to stop questioning the suspect (who under ideal
>>circumstances might assert self defense), it's not how it works in real
>>life! Who knew you can't get proper legal advice from idiot screenwriters?

>It's always hilarious when someone who hasn't asked for a lawyer has one show
>up and start ordering everyone around. If the suspect has been Mirandized and
>waives, that lawyer can sit in the lobby all day. He/She has no right to even
>be present in the room, let alone tell the cops what they can and can't do.
>And most cop shops have significant security between the public and the
>detectives' work space, so no lawyer could physically walk into an
>interrogation room unless they'd been specifically buzzed through and escorted
>back, something that won't happen if the suspect hasn't asked for an
>attorney.

The video pointed out that any lawyer doing that would be sharing a
cell with his client.