{"id":258,"date":"2016-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/should-you-talk-to-the-police\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:01:24","slug":"should-you-talk-to-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/should-you-talk-to-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Talk to the Police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In every case, the answer to this question is the same \u2013 it is an unqualified unequivocal NO!<\/p>\n<p>The way this issue usually comes up in my practice is when a client or potential client calls my office and says that they received a call from police asking them to come to the station to \u201canswer a few questions,\u201d what should I do?<\/p>\n<p>First of all, let\u2019s remember that words mean things, and the cops know what words to use.\u00a0 They will ask you to come down for an interview.\u00a0 What they really want to do is interrogate you.\u00a0 If they were asking you to come down for an interrogation then how would you answer?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/should-you-talk-to-the-police\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Should You Talk to the Police?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every case, the answer to this question is the same \u2013 it is an unqualified unequivocal NO! The way this issue usually comes up in my practice is when a client or potential client calls my office and says that they received a call from police asking them to come to the station to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should You Talk to the Police? | Barone Defense Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If the police thought you were innocent, they would not be asking you any questions. 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