Reply #9: these police officers are very skilled at what they do. and if their goal is to convince you that

[ejpoeta]

confessing is in your best interest, then they may be able to get you to do that. they come at you in a small room for HOURS. they go out and come back in and you are sitting in that room. no matter what you say to them they aren't letting you out until they hear what they want to hear. after no sleep and relentless badgering i don't know that any of us wouldn't give in after enough time has passed. they can lie to you too. and if you ask for a lawyer, they think you're hiding something. and we've been conditioned to think that if we did nothing wrong we have nothing to worry about. and if you lawyer up you must be hiding something. and you don't want to appear to be hiding something do you?!?! but the fact is that you have a right to an attorney and you SHOULD keep your mouth shut.