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The Gap Between Belief and Protection Your rights during a non-custodial FBI interview are fewer than you imagine, more consequential than you…

Federal agents are permitted to lie to you during an interrogation, and the legal authority for that permission is older than most…

Miranda does not protect most people who need it in federal criminal cases, because it does not apply at the moment they…

The Silence That Costs Nothing Miranda v. Arizona protects less than most people believe, and it protects it later than they expect.…

Cooperation is not a binary. It is a sequence of smaller decisions, each carrying its own risk, and the first one is…

The answer is no, not always, and the circumstances under which the obligation does not apply are far more common than most…

The Interview That Is Not an Interrogation Federal agents do not read Miranda warnings during most of the interviews that produce criminal…

The Architecture of a Federal Investigation The federal government does not announce its interest in you. The investigation, if one exists, began…

The crime is complete before the defendant understands it as a crime. Under federal law, embezzlement does not require a plan to…

A federal identity theft prosecution ends, in most cases, with a guilty plea. The arithmetic of mandatory consecutive sentences renders the alternative…

Can I Travel If I Am Under Federal Investigation? The Right You Already Have and the Mistake You Are About to Make…

The federal investigation concluded months before the arrest. That is the sentence most practitioners in this area wish their clients had understood…