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I mean, it's fun to believe there's this One Neat Trick to avoid being wrongfully convicted. If you're just smart enough, educated enough, and cool in the moment, you can outfox the police, the DA, and the judge using a proven formula laid out in the US Constitution.
But then you hear how these stories play out - cops outright lying to people they're interviewing, DAs lying about what you're being accused of, defense attorneys working with the prosecution, suspects being held for days or weeks without habeas corpus, suspects being threatened, suspects being tortured, suspects being lynched in their cells.
There's no "winning move" absent having friends on the outside of the system willing and able to lobby on your behalf.
There might not be a winning move, but there are definitely losing moves, and not making them helps you... well, not lose.
Sure. When there's no winning move, they're all losing moves.
No. Not making them just changes the length of the game.
But also, if you're being waterboarded, you don't want the game to continue