James Duane is on the faculty at Regent Law School — Pat Robertson’s right-wing Christian asshole factory — but given the nature and content of the lecture, I can forgive his affiliation with moral stormtroopers this one time. Both Professor Duane and Officer George Bruch, a local police detective who delivers the second half of the lecture, make a very clear case about the importance of the Fifth Amendment, and explain exactly why no one should speak to the police without consulting a lawyer first. Under any circumstances. Never. Ever. About anything. Ever.
I e-mailed it to my baby mama’s older brother, a private investigator who works with several prominent defense attorneys in Oakland and San Francisco, and he responded that it’s something everyone should see. So here ya go, everyone…
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