User:Marinaekladious/Sandbox

Marinaekladious (talk) 01:16, 1 April 2019 (UTC) This is my sandbox.

Examples of how an individual may unwillingly or unknowingly incriminate themselves is not listed. Additionally, self-incrimination goes beyond the witness knowing that they have the right to remain silent. Self-incrimination may result from incorrectly perceiving an officer's request as a command which may result in providing evidence without probable cause or warrant. Given the pragmatics, cooperation and ignorance to the ability to remain silent--an individual may self-incriminate themselves. This may be added in where the article mentions phrases of compelling.
 * Provide Examples of Self-Incrimination

The talk page suggests semantic ambiguity be expanded on and I believe this should be added in a bit more detail, as well. It is mentioned that the request for counsel must be unambiguously made by the witness--though, the distinction between what is perceived as ambiguous or unambiguous in this case is not mentioned. It would be helpful to provide an example of a request to counsel that is deemed as ambiguous and the subtle semantic changes that may change the request to unambiguous requests. https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1070&context=clb
 * Semantic Ambiguity

Word choice in section "Truthful statements by an innocent person"-- I found this section to be a bit confusing, I think it needs to be revised and explained on simpler terms. In "Scots Law" section it states: "In Scots criminal and civil law, both common and statute law originated and operate separately from that in England and Wales. In Scots law, the right to silence remains unchanged by the above, and juries' rights to draw inferences are severely curtailed. On January 25, 2018 the law in Scotland changed in regards to people being detained by police." It is unclear what the law has changed to here. It states that the law remains unchanged, then proceeds to say that it has changed. https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/Faculty/Langbein_Privilege_Against_Self_Incrimination.pdf
 * Clarification