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TIMONEY "LAWYERS UP."

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

You've seen it a hundred times if you've seen it once.The police are investigating your client. He or she is under arrest. They take them to that small windowless interview room and cuff them to the bench and let them stew for an hour or so thinking about their fate.Then two cops walk into the interview room, and one of them reads the client their Miranda rights. You client isn't sure what to do. "Hey, if you have nothing to hide, why wouldn't you talk to us?" one cop says. Maybe the other cop passes a comment about the Judge being upset when he hears that the client didn't cooperate. All too soon your client is talking a mile a minute.Well those lessons have apparently been well learned by the City Of Miami's top cop. As our favourite Herald Scribe reports today HERE Miami Chief of Police John "Lexus" Timoney told the Citizen Investigative Panel absolutely nothing when he "responded" to a subpoena to testify about his free car by not showing up at the hearing "upon advice of counsel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 11, 2008 (boomark / email).