Are police legally allowed to lie to you? The answer may shock you.
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Interview Transcript
Chris Combs: That’s right. Absolutely. And I think another thing – we started to brush up against this and maybe we can come back to it later. But, a lot of people are really just in complete utter shock when I tell them police are legally allowed to lie to you in their investigation. And they’re like, “What?” I’m like, “Yes.”
I always use the ridiculous example of you could be in an interview room and they could say, “We’ve got your DNA at the scene,” – and they don’t have your DNA at the scene – to try to elicit a confession. That is all fair game. So applying that to what we’re talking about in the DWI investigation, when you’re saying what you had mentioned, Scott, sometimes it feels like you don’t have a choice, right?
There’s a lot of people who say, “I didn’t have a choice. I had to blow. They said if I didn’t blow, I would lose my license for a year.” It’s simply untrue. Could you lose your license for a year? It’s possible. But, law enforcement are not attorneys. There is due process. So you don’t just lose your license for a year the second you make that decision on scene, there’s due process to fight that.
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