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    2 days ago

    I am familiar with the case in this picture. He hacked up a fellow college student and placed her body parts in a hobo. Both were graduating law school at the time. He is serving LWOP.

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        1 day ago

        No typo. (Hobo as in garbage cart) It literally happened. They were classmates and lived in same apartment complex. He had been stalking her.

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    4 days ago

    My advice to my son has always been: if you’re arrested for any reason, whether you did the thing or not, you become a Pokémon named ‘lawyer’.

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    3 days ago

    …the right to remain silent is literal. Don’t do propaganda for cops and prosecutors. You can be completely silent; it is your right to, and you should exercise it (or reply “no comment”, but literal silence falls under the right to remain silent too).

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      Actually, there was a Supreme Court case about this. If you just sit there and say nothing after they give you your Miranda rights, they can make assumptions about things or simply continue for as long as they want. The case concluded with- you must declare that you understand your rights in some way and that you are invoking that right.