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If you haven't done anything wrong, you should still follow legal advice and not say a thing to police, who are trained to extract a confession and whose interrogation techniques result in a confession 70% of the time, regardless of innocence or guilt. Police interrogation techniques are designed to quickly tire the person being interrogated making it far more likely that the person will eventually just agree with whatever narrative they are given to get a break, believing they can always recant what they agreed to, even though the Miranda Rights say that "anything you can can be used against you in a court of law." As the interrogation drags on, it is more than likely that a person will say something that sounds incriminating at some point, even if they do not confess. Under the adversarial law system, if the prosecution and defense both do their best, the truth should prevail, but it doesn't in a world where the public has seen so many criminal dramas every person believes themselves to be an expert. "Why would he confess if he didn't do it?" logic has doomed many, many innocent men. |