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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spin off from the Utah post.

If your 23 year old son came across the country and told you "hey, someone went really wrong on my trip with my girlfriend.  I snapped and XYZ...."

Would you turn your kid in?  Or call a lawyer friend and follow the attorney's predictable advice to "say nothing?"

This would be hard.  [/quote]

Both?

Look, I get that this is an unpopular opinion, but defendants have rights in this country. Even in cases where it's obvious that the defendant is guilty. The State cannot just summarily execute or imprison someone and has to be put to its burden of proof. Most of us will never need the benefit of this system so we don't understand its importance. But it is important and one thing that still continues to make this country different than many other, frankly horrible, places to live.

So, you bet your a-- I'd lawyer up. Especially if I had any morsel of doubt about guilt. That would be our rights under the Constitution. [/quote]

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