Was Kate McCann right to decline to answer the 48 questions?

[slartibartfast]

So just the one cite required
Will post tomorrow when I'm on my laptop
The idea that innocent people cannot incriminate themselves is extremely naive

One would be a start.

[Mr Gray]

One would be a start.

I'm not in the uk and in a hotel with poor internet
So you think the right to silence is to protect the guilty and not to protect the innocent

[Robittybob1]

So just the one cite required
Will post tomorrow when I'm on my laptop
The idea that innocent people cannot incriminate themselves is extremely naive

Could be hard to prove.

[Mr Gray]

Could be hard to prove.

It's not hard to prove at all
Tell me why you think there is a right to silence
There's your proof

[slartibartfast]

It's not hard to prove at all
Tell me why you think there is a right to silence
There's your proof

The right to silence is there so people don't have to incriminate themselves. The question of innocence doesn't come into it.

It is impossible for an innocent person telling the whole truth to incriminate themselves.

[Mr Gray]

The right to silence is there so people don't have to incriminate themselves. The question of innocence doesn't come into it.

It is impossible for an innocent person telling the whole truth to incriminate themselves.

So innocent people cannot incriminate themselves if they tell the whole truth
What about if they have a slight lapse in memory
Are pressurised by sophisticated interrogation techniques into making a mistake
Could they incriminate themselves then
Of course they could

[ShiningInLuz]

So innocent people cannot incriminate themselves if they tell the whole truth
What about if they have a slight lapse in memory
Are pressurised by sophisticated interrogation techniques into making a mistake
Could they incriminate themselves then
Of course they could

Are you now alleging that the PJ were using sophisticated interrogation techniques, in order to pressurise Kate into making a mistake?

[Alfie]

I can say without hesitation that if one of my children or grandchildren here disappeared, and I was given arguido status, I would be happy to dispense with a lawyer and I would answer every question put to me, given that updating the police accurately would optimise the chances of finding my child.

I cannot be incriminated if I am innocent, regardless of what the video purports.

Anything less than full disclosure was sub-optimal for Madeleine.  It might have ticked the box for Kate, but that is not good enough.  Madeleine got raw deal #2.

I'm till waiting to hear which of the 48 questions would have elicited answers that would have helped find Madeleine,, presuming Kate is telling the truth and she had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance.

[Alfie]

Innocent people incriminating themselves, let us exclude those with mental issues.

Here's one just off the top of my head

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Evans

[Brietta]

I can say without hesitation that if one of my children or grandchildren here disappeared, and I was given arguido status, I would be happy to dispense with a lawyer and I would answer every question put to me, given that updating the police accurately would optimise the chances of finding my child.

I cannot be incriminated if I am innocent, regardless of what the video purports.

Anything less than full disclosure was sub-optimal for Madeleine.  It might have ticked the box for Kate, but that is not good enough.  Madeleine got raw deal #2.

The McCanns had bared their souls ... " ... why didn't you come when we were crying last night?".  Why would you assume they would do less for their flesh and blood than you?

Have you given any consideration as to exactly how you would go about assisting your children or grandchildren while incarcerated as their murderer in a Portuguese jail?

[Mr Gray]

Are you now alleging that the PJ were using sophisticated interrogation techniques, in order to pressurise Kate into making a mistake?

You really are naive
That is exactly what every police force does
Ask questions over and over
Tire the suspect out looking for a mistake
Kate had already been answering questions for hours
She was now not answering questions as a witness but as an arguidos
If I remember correctly she was expecting to be arrested
She needed her freedom to help maddie

[Robittybob1]

Here's one just off the top of my head

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Evans

very good example.

[Alfie]

The right to silence is there so people don't have to incriminate themselves. The question of innocence doesn't come into it.

It is impossible for an innocent person telling the whole truth to incriminate themselves.

Truthful statements by an innocent person[edit]

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.[12]
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.[13]

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

[Mr Gray]

it is absolutely ridiculous for posters to claim that the innocent cannot incriminate themselves...it shows how poorly they understand the mccanns situation

[slartibartfast]

it is absolutely ridiculous for posters to claim that the innocent cannot incriminate themselves...it shows how poorly they understand the mccanns situation

I think I understand the McCann's situation.