{"id":20956,"date":"2013-01-15T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2013-01-15T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:40:48","slug":"what-you-dont-say-might-be-held-against-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/what-you-dont-say-might-be-held-against-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What You DON&#8217;T Say Might be Held Against You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Joe Wright<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2013\/01\/what-you-dont-say-might-be-held-against.html\"><b>Activist Post<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but yet another entrenched constitutional right is up for debate to be trampled upon: the right to remain silent. This right, in fact, even goes beyond the U.S. Constitution and has become a chestnut of virtue for all: silence is golden. Well, apparently not anymore if the Supreme Court sides for the police in the case of<i>Salinas vs. Texas<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from a 1992 double-murder where police questioned Genevevo Salinas who was reported to have attended a party of the deceased. After Salinas voluntarily agreed to answer questions of the attending police officers, he refused one question: whether shotgun shells that were found at the scene would match a gun taken from the apartment. Instead, officers would later testify that his body language answered for him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he &#8216;looked down at the floor, shuffled his feet, bit his bottom lip, clinched his hands in his lap, began to tighten up.&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/12\/us\/supreme-court-takes-up-first-and-fifth-amendment-cases.html?smid=pl-share&amp;_r=0\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Salinas was later charged and sentenced to 20 years based on this evidence, and the testimony of a friend who said he confessed. The question then becomes if the constitutional right to remain silent extends to the pre-arrest phase of investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2013\/01\/what-you-dont-say-might-be-held-against.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but yet another entrenched constitutional right is up for debate to be trampled upon: the right to remain silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}