Know Your Rights at the Door
What you can say, what you can refuse and who to call when the police are on your front step. Written for real people, in real words.
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Most people meet the criminal law for the first time in a doorway, half awake, with no idea what they are allowed to say. Halifax defence lawyer Adrian Vale explains the basics in plain words: the right to stay silent, the right to a lawyer, when police need a warrant to come inside, and what to do in the first hour after an arrest. General information, not legal advice, and a calm place to start before you pick up the phone.
It is almost always late. You hear the knock, you look through the glass, and there are two officers on the step. Your heart is loud in your ears and your brain goes quiet. This chapter is about the first thirty seconds, because the first thirty seconds are where most people say something they later wish they had not. You do not have to open the door fully to talk. You can speak through it, or open it on the chain. You can ask who they are, why they are there and whether they have a warrant. Tho
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I have practised criminal defence in Halifax for seventeen years, most of it in the provincial court on Spring Garden Road, where the coffee is bad and the stakes are not. The same questions come to me every week, usually at two in the morning, usually from someone standing in a hallway with a police officer at the door. So I started writing the answers down in words a tired person can follow. Nothing I write is legal advice for your situation. It is a map, so you know which questions to ask. I live in the North End with my partner, two teenagers and a rowing machine I use as a coat rack.
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