Bulloch County GA Criminal Attorney

Statesboro, GA criminal attorney Simon Peed wants you to understand your rights if you are stopped or investigated by the police. While many of us are familiar with the Miranda Warning from television shows, not everyone knows how these rights apply in real-life encounters with law enforcement. Police are only required to read you the Miranda Warning when you are in custody and being questioned. If you are not yet in custody, they can ask you anything they wish. Officers have been known to delay making an arrest while someone is voluntarily answering questions, allowing them to avoid issuing a Miranda Warning until they formally take the suspect into custody.

Police officers are highly trained in gathering information and getting conversations admitted as evidence in court. However, most people are not trained to protect themselves from manipulative, deceptive, or even dishonest police questioning. While it is generally illegal for you to lie to the police, officers are permitted to lie to you to obtain a confession or gather evidence. There have been numerous cases across the country where police used deceptive techniques to obtain confessions from suspects, only for it to be proven later that they were innocent. These wrongful confessions have led to individuals spending years in prison before being exonerated.

If you are being questioned by the police, do not assume that the information they share with you is truthful—especially when they imply or state that they know facts about the case. The first thing you should do when the police start questioning you or ask you to come in for questioning is to contact Statesboro, GA criminal attorney Simon Peed.

Simon can help document the officer’s questions and advise you on whether cooperating with the investigation is in your best interest. Just because you are innocent does not mean you should cooperate without counsel. Innocent people have been convicted and spent years in prison due to misleading police questioning. Police are trained to ask questions in a way that may lead to incriminating answers. While this training is not designed to produce false confessions, the use of advanced interrogation techniques can sometimes lead to innocent people being convicted.

Never talk to the police or anyone else about any crime you are suspected of without first consulting Simon Peed. Anything you say can be interpreted by various people, including judges and jurors, and you may not have an opportunity to fully explain your understanding of the officer’s questions or your intent behind your answers. Contact Simon Peed now for a confidential case evaluation and protect your rights.