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Originally posted by lauradav
The very first thing we learned in Criminal Procedure was that you NEVER EVER TELL A POLICE OFFICER YOU ARE A LAWYER when they have pulled you over.
Even if you are a lawyer and you work in law enforcement, you don't tell them. You can carry your badge with your driver's license so that when you pull it out they see it, but you don't shoot off at the mouth about it.
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Well, I guess that's the perils of going to a 3rd tier law school - they didn't teach us that.
I wasn't trying to "shoot my mouth off" about it - I was trying something, anything to get out of this ticket.
