Believe it or not but most cops aren’t as virtuous as Stabler. And a “good” attorney can often work around that.
But also, that doesn’t change anything. From skimming the article, it sounds like he wasn’t being interrogated without a lawyer. He was just being left to languish in confinement. Which… is how the us legal system “works”.
This is less “ice are bad” and more “all cops are bastards”
When someone requests an attorney, all questioning stops dead. If they continue on, it becomes fruit of the poisonous tree.
Believe it or not but most cops aren’t as virtuous as Stabler. And a “good” attorney can often work around that.
But also, that doesn’t change anything. From skimming the article, it sounds like he wasn’t being interrogated without a lawyer. He was just being left to languish in confinement. Which… is how the us legal system “works”.
This is less “ice are bad” and more “all cops are bastards”
so just shoot them or strangle them in holding. That’s what is going on.