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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In case anyone needs a reminder:

I decline to answer any questions without legal counsel.

I do not consent to any search.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    nowadays that's just implied consent to a beat-down.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not saying to go full sovereign-citizen-fringe-flag-maritime-law-Moorish-American. It is always your right not to answer questions without legal counsel. It is always your right not to consent to a search.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or you could choose to not immediately have a hostile and confrontational attitude.

    "No" is also a valid answer to “do you know why I stopped you?”

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    "No," depending on why the officer stopped you, could be an admission of negligence (edit: or evidence of your level of intoxication,"He was so intoxicated he didn't know why I'd pulled him over after he'd smashed into a guardrail"), if you "should have known."

    Exercising your rights is not "hostile and confrontational."

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Exercising your rights is perhaps not hostile and confrontational.

    Stating "I'm exercising my rights" is.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The article I linked brings up the Salinas v. Texas case. My "For some reason" was more of a sarcastic nod to me thinking that ruling is wrong, that most rights don't need to be invoked, the main reason counsel needs to be invoked is because you usually need someone else to do something (e.g. give you a phone to call your lawyer), but that doesn't apply to being silent.

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