what should people who have been recently charged know about being arrested?
People who are arrested should know that there are two things they should do. The first thing they should do is seek good criminal legal advice in order to appropriately respond to the charges. The second thing they should do is remain silent. In other words, do not make any statement to the police or anyone else in relation to the incident for which they are charged or for which they may be the subject of an investigation. Q: In your experience what percentage of your clients have gone to the police station and given information or said things that they maybe shouldn’t have said? A: It’s a significant enough percentage that it is troublesome because the important and best thing they can do, as I said before, is immediately speak to a criminal lawyer and exercise their right to remain silent. If they make a statement to the police in relation to the investigation, that almost always works against them and it could easily have been avoided. So in terms of a percentage, it might be as mu
