Ivy league loser
Pop quiz: The 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees you:
A) Freedom of speech
B) Protection against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure
C) Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures
D) The right to one phone call
Would you care to guess what the underage drunk Ivy League college student claimed it was?
Had he been given this test, he would have circled "D." Yep, he had a "right to call his mommy" and "as an American citizen, he knew his rights." Suddenly, my small private college degree isn't looking so shabby.
We eventually let him call his mommy, who incidentally doesn't live in this state. She was less than thrilled. His father was even less impressed than his mother. He told the kid he was going to beat him to death. I believed him so warned him to wait until he at least left the station.
A) Freedom of speech
B) Protection against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure
C) Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures
D) The right to one phone call
Would you care to guess what the underage drunk Ivy League college student claimed it was?
Had he been given this test, he would have circled "D." Yep, he had a "right to call his mommy" and "as an American citizen, he knew his rights." Suddenly, my small private college degree isn't looking so shabby.
We eventually let him call his mommy, who incidentally doesn't live in this state. She was less than thrilled. His father was even less impressed than his mother. He told the kid he was going to beat him to death. I believed him so warned him to wait until he at least left the station.
posted by Moe at 11:27
4 Comments:
Moe:
Yeah, I've got my copy of J. Shane Creamer's book (The Law of Arrest, Search and Seizure) close by...lol.
Kids...(rolls eyes)
My dad always told me: "You wind up getting arrested, DON'T bother to call me...'cause I'm not bailing you out".
And in 56 years...NEVER been arrested OR detained.
Amazing the difference a father's influence CAN make (especailly when the kid pays the hell attention), eh?
Good post.
I love it when people tell me they know they have a right to a phone call from jail. I point out that just because Thomas Jefferson dictated the Constitution over a telephone doesn't mean they're phone call from jail is in there anywhere. I get some funny looks when people realize there were no phones when the Constitution was written...
I like to let them make calls just so I can sit there across the desk from them and write down anything incriminating that they say...and they usually say plenty when explaining to whoever how they got arrested and why.
The ones who crack me up are the ones who look at me with all seriousness and say "excuse me...this is private. Can you step out of the room?"
Yeah, like THAT'S going to happen.
Best part is, after I tell them "no", they usually go right ahead and incriminate themselves on that phone call with me sitting right there, writing. What do they think I'm doing--the crossword?
I love you. Feel better.
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