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I see you, nothing wrong with one finding credible a report by one source . . . it will be interesting to see who's report ends up being the one with the most consensus among all of the reporting once things become closer together . . . nothing wrong with backing your horse at this point in the...

agreed there is a degree of flux in reports especially at the early stages of events . . . hopefully in the near future we will see less flux and things, for the most part, will align themselves so we can then have a closer to the point discussion on the matter . . . understand . . .

yes I hear yah . . . and see where you are coming from . . . and yes it would be great to wait a given time X when, hopefully, most reports will align themselves with each others for the most part . . . but till that time period there is nothing really wrong with having a discussion to what we...

yes I understand what you are saying . . . but are not people entitled to weigh the accounts as they wish, just like jurors . . . no the court of public opinion is not an exact science and in certain cases there are motives of the ones putting out the reports . . . agreed . . . but in the end...

yes I understood what you are saying . . . and as I mentioned in my prior post to DaBriunz, conflicting accounts happened all the time in our courts . . . bottom line on a daily basis in our courts someone is testifying to something that did not happened the way that they testified . . ...

no they can not all be facts and the different reports are conflicting . . . but conflicting accounts also occur at trials where "facts" allegedly only occurred (at least what some people on this board seem to think). . . a commonwealth witness says the defendant slapped her, a defense...

I am not sure what you mean by an industry expert . . . But if I had a dime for every case I see with conflicting evidence (that is witness one says red light and witness two says green light and thus we know one is not correct) I could retire . . . point being, just because the evidence is...

in other news . . . all I know is AH should have rented from Enterprise because they pick you up and he would not have had to leave the car in the industrial park and may not have been caught up in all of this mess . . . my two cents . . .

what makes you think what has been reported are not "facts" . . . if someone testifies at trial that he heard shots emanating from AH's house . . . how is any less a "fact" then if that same person tells a newspaper . . . just a word to the wise, people have been known to be, to put it...

thanks for the response but I am not wrong . . . I was talking about the general principles of a person talking with the cops (outside of an arrest) and what is or is not admissible in court in this Commonwealth . . . and as you know yourself as a police officer, there is a landmark point and...

I am not sure where you are going with this but one Miranda's rights don't exist until there is a custodial interrogation . . . prior to that point an individual does not have any Miranda's rights . . . and as such, and my point for the 35th time, any actions or statements made by a...

well seeing that we are dealing with a criminal investigation and defendants and that defendants are assigned criminal lawyers, it does take one with too much intelligence to know that he was referring to a criminal lawyer even though he is not write the magic word "criminal" . . . if you ever...

okay sparky I hear yah, whatever floats your boat . . . but a little lesson in criminal law seeing that is what this is all about, a non-responsive answer to a police officer's question prior to custodial interrogation is admissible in a court of law in this commonwealth . .. regardless of what...

yes you are correct . . . the DA needs show that the accessory after the fact (AAF) has knowledge that a crime was committed and that he has the specific intent to help the felon avoid the law . . . so if AH did not have knowledge that his roommates committed a crime, one element is missing from...

I am leaving for work and don't have time to respond but will do so later tonight . . . I am not sure how Salinas effect CI off the top of my head and until I read the final decision I don't want to respond now . . . but unless is added more protection to the defendant, it won't change what...

It is a little tricky and somewhat involved . . . but criminal law is procedural in that things need to follow a certain order and also there are landmarks if you will in the process that will trigger rights and make actions by the cops unconstitutional . . . the right to remain silent is...

yes but your non responsive answer is admissible in court, this the point people seem to be missing . . . . . . the rules are different before there is custodial interrogation and a non responsive/conduct of a defendant prior to custodial interrogation is admissible in court . . . and with...

But what you don't understand is that he was using it, and to use you words, to bolster his credibility . . . if we are having a discussion and someone tries to throw out some credibility to his statement by saying "I know because I am X . . . " there is nothing wrong with asking what kind...

Fine advise your clients however you wish, but as I have stated numerous times being non responsive to a cop is not the right choice 100% of the time . . . If the people in AH's house committed the murder, he knew about it and knew they were in his house and then he is non responsive to a...

If the fact that you are a lawyer is irrelevant to the discussion, then why did you state that your were a lawyer in post #61 of this thread? "I am a lawyer. In the real world, I would advise my client to let the police get a warrant." you brought the fact that you were a lawyer to the...