We have a Fifth Amendment, and it comes in quite handy.
Tiger Woods, as we all, has the “right not to incriminate himself” and NOT talk to the police.
He followed that simple directive and received this:
Which was all he could be charged with by the evidence the police had. It’s $164 and 4 points. A misdemeanor moving violation. For Tiger, that’s literally pocket (lint) money, and he’s little risk for losing his license.
They could do no more because they weren’t handed evidence from the suspects themselves.
It’s entirely conceivable that no matter what he may have said to the cops, they would have found something more with which to charge him, or even charge his wife with a crime. And that’s just the legal issues. What about the tabloids? No one will know, at least from this episode.
Smart, Tiger, smart.
And before you tell me that an innocent man has nothing to fear and should talk to the police, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
The 5th Amendment conundrum – silence has the appearance of guilt – simply is not legally true, it’s why we have a 5th amendment – you cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself.
You can volunteer, though….
This isn’t a Golf lesson, it’s a life lesson.
Watch the whole thing, and part 2 to see the other side.
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
You have to realize
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, December 1st at 11:33PM EST (link)Tiger is only 33 – only been married a short time and does have two small children…..
It must be very hard to deal with all the little domestic issues when you are thinking of – well all the stuff a 33 year old multi-million aire thinks about…..I would not know myself – I have to go change the cat box now….meow
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
The life lesson is never voluntarily talk to the cops.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, December 2nd at 1:07AM EST (link)Hate to be that way, like ‘em, work for them sometimes, but I know the game; they and the prosecutors just want to make a case and close a file. If you give them something that will enable them to do that, well, you just made their day easier and they’re not going to be laying awake at night wondering if you really did it.
I know there’s a lot of idiots out there watching CSI every night and thinking that giving the pretty lady cop the DNA swab is what everybody does, but they’re counting on you being an idiot. And, hey, I’ve known lots of cops and I have yet to see a lady cop come to work with her breasts hanging out, so don’t think that’s part of the package.
The right answer is, Officer, am I under arrest? Officer, am I free to go? And if he says you’re under arrest or not free to go, Officer, I’d like my attorney and we can talk when she gets here.
And for all that, it’s pretty obvious that Tiger’s old lady was beating Hell out of him over the little bits of fluff he’d been picking up and he ran, sans sabot, while she was flailing on the Escalade with a 7 iron. He wrecked the car, she gave some thought to her pre-nups, and an amicable arrangement was made.
In Vino Veritas