James Pietragallo
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And this is standard operating procedure in an interrogation.
They say you can call a lawyer, but if you do, that shuts off all your opportunity to tell us the truth.
We can't help you anymore if you get a lawyer.
Not that they're trying to help you by putting you in prison, but that's what they tell you.
We can't help you if you get a lawyer.
We can't help tighten the noose around your neck anymore if you get a lawyer.
So they said in a custodial interrogation that this is something, but basically he was not in custody.
He was in his own house making coffee, walking around the ground.
They never followed him to the bathroom or they let him do whatever he wanted.
He had run of the house.
You're not in custodial β this is not a custodial interrogation.
You're just talking voluntarily to cops.
Now, they should Mirandize him if they think he's done anything because that's the rule, but he's still not β
The defense argued everything should be thrown out, but the court said that he was not being sweated, he wasn't being kept in a room.
The questioning happened in his own table, in his own home, by his own choosing.
He said, I'll talk to you.
The agents told him, you don't have to talk to us.
They never restrained him.
It's in.
Fuck you, David.