Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we have a blast from the past, that was requested by one of our Platinum-level members, and that’s an old video/podcast episode I did way back in August 2017 in which I debunked the very popular YouTube video “Never Talk to the Police,” by Law Professor James Duane.
That episode (my podcast) is no longer available on YouTube to the general public, but I’m making it available here to all of you Law of Self Defense Members. However, given the length of the episode (almost an hour) I’ve cut it into two parts. We shared Part 1 with you yesterday, and you can find that here: Debunking “Never Talk to the Police” (from 2017!): Part 1
Today we’re sharing Part 2 with you.
I apologize up front for the rather sketchy video and audio quality—our production value was not in 2017 at the levels it is today. I also ask that if you come across any promotions in the episode, keep in mind that they are long expired.
CCW Safe: Our Sponsor
Now before we jump into the substance of today’s content, I do, of course, need to mention today’s sponsor, CCW Safe, a provider of legal service memberships, what many people mistakenly call self-defense insurance. They in effect promise to pay their member’s legal expenses if their member is involved in a use of force event.
And those expenses start big and get bigger, fast, folks. For example, imagine a case where you were threatened, you displayed your gun, you didn’t fire a shot didn’t hurt anybody—and now you find yourself charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, typically a 10-year felony.
If you’re charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, you’re looking at a retainer to your lead counsel on the order of $30,000 to $50,000. And that’s just for pre-trial work, folks, that’s not for going to trial. If it’s a killing case, where you’re charged with manslaughter or murder, you’re easily looking at $100,000 or $200,000 pre-trial expense, and just multiply that for the trial.
So, if you don’t have that kind of money stuffed in your mattress just in case you’re compelled to defend yourself and your family, it can be useful to have a financial partner standing behind you to make sure you have the resources you need to fight the legal battle, the way you want it fought—as if your life depended on it. Because, really, it does. And that’s what CCW Safe offers to do.
There are several companies out there that offer similar services. I’ve looked at all of them, as you might imagine, and I found that CCW Safe is the best fit for me personally. I’m a member of CCW Safe, my wife Emily is a member of CCW Safe.
One of the biggest reasons I favored CCW Safe over other similar offerings is that many of those others simply don’t provide the level resources you need for an adequate legal defense. If you’re looking at a “self-defense insurance” offer that caps out at $150,000 or $250,000, that’s simply not enough for a murder or manslaughter trial if you’ve killed someone in self-defense, as I’ve already discussed. In contrast, CCW Safe promises to pay what the defense costs, period, with no such cap. Read the fine print, folks, and understand what you’re getting—and not getting—from any such offering you’re considering.
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With that out of the way, please enjoy Part 2 of “Debunking ‘Never Talk to the Police’” from August 2017! (FYI, we’ll be adding a transcript of that video below, for those of you who prefer to read rather than view, but it may take a day or so to get that done.)
UPDATE: You can find that transcript here:
TRANSCRIPT: Debunking the “Don’t Talk to the Police” YouTube Video
OK, folks, I hope you enjoyed that Part 2 of “Debunking ‘Never Talk to the Police,’” and be sure to check out Part 1, linked above, if you haven’t already done so.
Remember
You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill.
Know the law so you’re hard to convict.
Stay safe!
–Andrew
Attorney Andrew F. Branca
Law of Self Defense LLC
Law of Self Defense Platinum Protection Program
Andrew. You are 99 44/100 % right. I have talked to suspects and witnesses who couldn’t stop talking if their life depended on it. But if you refused to talk to responding officers, you jump up to the head of my suspect list. Decades ago, I responded to a woman who shoot her abusive boyfriend. I had to tell her to shut up and ask for an attorney. It was a good self defense shooting but she was talking herself into trouble
Hi Andrew,
Could you provide a few examples of what you consider to be “perishable exculpatory evidence?”
“Perishable” meaning any evidence that might not be there when you look for it later. Physical items, witnesses who will inevitably wander away eventually, and so forth.
“Exculpatory” meaning it would be helpful to your defense. The bad guy’s knife that was your justification for shooting him, the witnesses who saw the bad guy charge at you with raised knife, and so forth.
–Andrew
Attorney Andrew F. Branca