In what circumstances can the "No comment" response be considered suspicious?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Truthful statements by an innocent person
An incriminating statement includes any statement that tends to increase the danger that the person making the statement will be accused, charged or prosecuted – even if the statement is true, and even if the person is innocent of any crime. Thus, even a person who is innocent of any crime who testifies truthfully can be incriminated by that testimony. The United States Supreme Court has stated that the Fifth Amendment privilege:

protects the innocent as well as the guilty.... one of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions . . . is to protect innocent men . . . who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances..... truthful responses of an innocent witness, as well as those of a wrongdoer, may provide the government with incriminating evidence from the speaker’s own mouth.[27]
The U.S. Supreme Court has also stated:

Too many, even those who should be better advised, view this privilege as a shelter for wrongdoers. They too readily assume that those who invoke it are either guilty of crime or commit perjury in claiming the privilege.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination#Truthful_statements_by_an_innocent_person

[Carana]

LOL.  Are you trying to tell me that there has never been a miscarriage of justice resulting in an innocent person going to prison owing to something they said to the police?

There's a guy on Death Row for a detail he didn't think to mention during his initial interview.

[slartibartfast]

Are you really trying to suggest an innocent person cannot incriminate themselves... That is ridiculous imo

Well give us a real world cite of someone, of similar intelligence to Kate, doing so.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Well give us a real world cite of someone, of similar intelligence to Kate, doing so.

LOL again.  Are you going to reject every example on the basis that Kate has a genius IQ, perchance...?

[Mr Gray]

Well give us a real world cite of someone, of similar intelligence to Kate, doing so.

What a ridiculous idea... Give me a cite where someone of the intelligence  of Kate is being questioned by a police force in a foreign country who thinks she is trying to cover up the death of her daughter... You might then realise the situation Kate found herself in was quite unique

[Angelo222]

Truthful statements by an innocent person
An incriminating statement includes any statement that tends to increase the danger that the person making the statement will be accused, charged or prosecuted – even if the statement is true, and even if the person is innocent of any crime. Thus, even a person who is innocent of any crime who testifies truthfully can be incriminated by that testimony. The United States Supreme Court has stated that the Fifth Amendment privilege:

protects the innocent as well as the guilty.... one of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions . . . is to protect innocent men . . . who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances..... truthful responses of an innocent witness, as well as those of a wrongdoer, may provide the government with incriminating evidence from the speaker’s own mouth.[27]
The U.S. Supreme Court has also stated:

Too many, even those who should be better advised, view this privilege as a shelter for wrongdoers. They too readily assume that those who invoke it are either guilty of crime or commit perjury in claiming the privilege.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination#Truthful_statements_by_an_innocent_person

A good post VS but the case we are examining is that of a missing toddler.  How could the parents of that child possibly incriminate themselves if they had absolutely nothing to hide in the first place?  That is the million dollar question for me.

[slartibartfast]

What a ridiculous idea... Give me a cite where someone of the intelligence  of Kate is being questioned by a police force in a foreign country who thinks she is trying to cover up the death of her daughter... You might then realise the situation Kate found herself in was quite unique

I never mentioned foreign countries or police. It’s up to you and VS to find a cite.

[Mr Gray]

I never mentioned foreign countries or police. It’s up to you and VS to find a cite.

It's not up to me to find anything... It's not important that you don't understand  the simple fact that innocent people can incriminate themselves

[Vertigo Swirl]

A good post VS but the case we are examining is that of a missing toddler.  How could the parents of that child possibly incriminate themselves if they had absolutely nothing to hide in the first place?  That is the million dollar question for me.

I have already given some examples earlier in this thread.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I never mentioned foreign countries or police. It’s up to you and VS to find a cite.

Please tell us how you will decide whether on not the individual is of similar intelligence to Kate?

[Robittybob1]

Please tell us how you will decide whether on not the individual is of similar intelligence to Kate?

We'll perform an IQ test and a polygraph on the same day.

[sadie]

We'll perform an IQ test and a polygraph on the same day.

Polygraph?

Anyone volunteering for a polygraph must be mad

https://www.brodenmickelsen.com/blog/why-polygraph-tests-are-not-admissible-in-court/