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Re: Guess what happened!!!

>>>>> "Grady" == Grady Ward <grady@northcoast.com> writes:

Grady> [...] And they *do not care*
Grady> about innocent explanations: while they are required by law to turn over
Grady> exculpatory data to the prosecutor, I'm sure a lot of THAT is "lost" while
Grady> *anything* you say that makes you look guilty will be carefully
Grady> used against you later.  Repeat: never talk to the FBI unless you have
Grady> discussed this with an attorney *first*.

I agree, very much.

Make that very very much.  $40,000 worth.

I've learned (the very hard and expensive way) that the cops seem to
be listening only for what they want to hear, and if you mumble a
sequence of phoenemes that are *close* to something that might nail
you as a criminal, they will take that mumbling and misquote it out of
context to their advantage in their report.

It's not their job to be fair.  It's their job to locate evidence that
the prosecutor can use.

*Never* talk to the cops.

*Never* talk to the cops.  (I'm saying this as a mantra now. :-)

(I will be happy to reveal the details of two very serious "out of
context" quotings *after* my trial in September.  Provided I can still
afford an Internet account. :-)

print "Just another Perl hacker," # but not what the media calls "hacker!" :-)
# legal fund: $1182.57 collected, $24879.50 spent; email @FUND in body for details
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