Know Your Rights

When Dealing with Police:

• Do not answer questions or make statements. Exercise your 5th Amendment right to remain silent. Anything you say (and sometimes things you do not say) will be used against you. If asked about whether something belongs to you, tell the officer to please not ask about your ownership interest in anything. If asked where you are going or where you came from, tell the officer to please not question you about your personal affairs. State: "If I am not presently under arrest or being held for investigation, please allow me to leave."
  
  
• Never give permission for a search. Anywhere. Anytime. If you do, you waive your 4th Amendment right against unreasonable searches.
  
  
• Never open your door to the police. If you do, a cop may claim to see or smell something, giving him/her the right to order you out of your home while he/she tries to get a search warrant. If you do not open the door, he/she cannot do that.
  
  
• Ask for Attorney Ed Czuprynski. When you ask for a lawyer, the officer knows he/she is supposed to stop questioning you under the 6th Amendment.