Does invoking the right to silence carry with it significant risk?

[ShiningInLuz]

Kate had been made the lowest level of arguido possible.

I thought the arguido status was a uniform one?

I stand to be corrected.

From Kate's arguido statement -

"The arguida’s legal representative, Dr Carlos Pinto de Abreu, is also present.

She now possesses arguida status, and the rights and duties that assist her are explained to her, and she is subject to TIR [“termo de identidade e residência”, the lowest coercion measure that is automatically applicable, and consists of stating one’s name and residence]."

Please don't ask me what other coercion measures are applicable.  I haven't a clue.

[Eleanor]

http://mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GERRY-MCCANN-ARGUIDO.htm

Thanks, Ferryman.  So some suggestions there that it was Kate they were after.

[ferryman]

From Kate's arguido statement -

"The arguida’s legal representative, Dr Carlos Pinto de Abreu, is also present.

She now possesses arguida status, and the rights and duties that assist her are explained to her, and she is subject to TIR [“termo de identidade e residência”, the lowest coercion measure that is automatically applicable, and consists of stating one’s name and residence]."

Please don't ask me what other coercion measures are applicable.  I haven't a clue.

Thank you for that.

[Brietta]

From Kate's arguido statement -

"The arguida’s legal representative, Dr Carlos Pinto de Abreu, is also present.

She now possesses arguida status, and the rights and duties that assist her are explained to her, and she is subject to TIR [“termo de identidade e residência”, the lowest coercion measure that is automatically applicable, and consists of stating one’s name and residence]."

Please don't ask me what other coercion measures are applicable.  I haven't a clue.

So basically all that was legally required of her was for Kate to give her name and address and nothing else??

[ferryman]

Thanks, Ferryman.  So some suggestions there that it was Kate they were after.

By Amaral's reckoning, it was Kate who found Madeleine's body.

And by the "deal", Gerry would have got off scot free while Kate would have got a couple of years.

[Carana]

From Kate's arguido statement -

"The arguida’s legal representative, Dr Carlos Pinto de Abreu, is also present.

She now possesses arguida status, and the rights and duties that assist her are explained to her, and she is subject to TIR [“termo de identidade e residência”, the lowest coercion measure that is automatically applicable, and consists of stating one’s name and residence]."

Please don't ask me what other coercion measures are applicable.  I haven't a clue.

House arrest or being held on remand.

[Eleanor]

By Amaral's reckoning, it was Kate who found Madeleine's body.

And by the "deal", Gerry would have got off scot free while Kate would have got a couple of years.

If Kate had accepted the deal, what do you think Kate would have done when they asked her what she had done with the body?

[Mr Gray]

john has accepted it was the right thing to do at the time but says it may make people doubt kate in the long run...

it doesn't make a scrap of difference in the long run......other factors are far more important. Those who say "the dog's don't lie" think her silence is suspicious....those of us who understand the dog's evidence say she was right to refuse to answer...simple

[Mr Gray]

so what difference would it have made if kate had answered those questions..if you think about it..absolutely none

[ferryman]

If Kate had accepted the deal, what do you think Kate would have done when they asked her what she had done with the body?

Yep!

[stephen25000]

By Amaral's reckoning, it was Kate who found Madeleine's body.

And by the "deal", Gerry would have got off scot free while Kate would have got a couple of years.

So you have proof of this ?

[ferryman]

So you have proof of this ?

Yes.

I believe he said it in his el Mundo interview.

I can't find it straight away ...

[faithlilly]

He was there with her Montclair, I think we would have heard by now if it was untrue.

Would that be covered by client confidentiality ?

[Alfred R Jones]

What does Amaral have to say about Kate's cross-questioning and refusal to answer in his very excellent and truthful book?

[Alice Purjorick]

Dunno I anna read it!