This is better advice than staying silent (at least in the US). If you stay silent, then police can keep questioning you for as long as you're silent and they want to. When you say you want a lawyer, then they're required to stop questioning you.
In other words, the act of remaining silent is not enough to invoke your right to silence. You need to break your silence in order to invoke your right to silence
You need to specificly say "I want to speak with my lawyer", cops in the usa have been able to deny someone saying something like 'dont I get to speak to a lawyer' isnt specific enough
It took me a while! "Lawyer....", "law.....yer..." "laaaawyir".
For anyone who doesn't get this, a person wanted to envoke their right to an attorney and asked for his "lawyer dawg." The police maliciously interpreted this as asking for a lawyer dog, which you have no right to, and the court agreed that that was a reasonable assumption and that the guy did not envoke his right to an attorney, so they did nothing wrong by not providing one.
That's not at all what happened. He spoke to detectives, and even allowed them to search his apartment to look for the victim (a woman he was falsely claiming he was friends with).
He was found guilty of her murder, and will be eligible for parole in 2041:
Surely someone wouldn’t just go on 4chan and lie
Absolutely not, you don't say that all threads are Fake and Gay.
Noice
The judge also dismissed additional charges discovered during the investigation, including one count of burglary and 30 counts of sexual exploitation of children
Hey what the fuck
...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).
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.
Throughline's We the People recently did an episode called, The Right to Remain Silent.
He didn't win though
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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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