A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to PoliceWhen Regent University law professor James Duane first delivered his ”Don’t Talk to the Police!” lecture back in 2008, he likely had no idea that it would go viral again nearly a decade later.
Duane’s lecture, which encourages people to exercise their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, has been getting renewed attention in the wake of Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” documentary, which covers the trial of Steven Avery, who was found guilty in 2007 of killing photographer Teresa Halbach.
“I decided I would talk to them about the Fifth Amendment,” Duane recently told The Church Boys podcast, explaining that he delivered the lecture to his audience at the time because he believed that the contents of this amendment are “poorly understood by the average guy on the street.”
