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To Speak or Not to Speak
December 5, 2009
The Fifth Amendment is at issue this week in two high-profile cases: the marital mishap of professional golfer Tiger Woods and the surprise convictions of the American student perhaps wrongfully convicted of killing her roommate, Amanda Knox and her boyfriend. The Constitution protects each and everyone of us from false confessions or prosecutorial twisting of our words. Simply put, it grants us the right to remain silent. Tiger Woods has, of course, invoked this right. Amanda Knox, however, spent days talking with Perusian investigators without an attorney. She was deprived of sleep and told to "imagine" scenarios under which her roommate could have been killed. She did. Investigators then called those scenarios "explanations" and within days of the murder, she was publicly touted as her roommate's killer. Read more
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