James Duane (professor): Difference between revisions

'''James Duane''' is a [[Regent University School of Law]] professor and [[Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution|Fifth Amendment]] expert.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/faculty_staff/duane.cfm|title=James Duane|publisher=Regent University}}</ref> He has come under fire for his suggestion to never talk to police under any circumstances.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/08/white_lawyer_says_dont_talk_to.asp|title=Regent Law Professor: Don't Talk to Police|date=August 6, 2008|author=Sneider, Jaime}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8167533318153586646#|author=James Duane|title=Talking to the Police}}</ref> His reasoning is that police sometimes lie to criminal suspects; police may have substantial evidence against even innocent witnesses; and individuals convinced of their own innocence may have unknowingly committed some crime.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.campbell.edu/news/item/Professor-speaks-to-Federalist-Society-on-Genius-of-the-Fifth-Amendmen|title=Professor speaks to Federalist Society on Genius of the Fifth Amendment|date=March 25, 2009}}</ref> This is along the lines of [[Justice Robert Jackson]]'s reasoning in ''[[Watts v. Indiana]]''. He has also pointed out some bizarre [[legislative drafting error]]s in the Virginia Statute on Privileged Marital Communications<ref>{{citation|volume=12|publisher=Regent U. L. Rev.|issue=91|date=1999-2000|title=Bizarre Drafting Errors in the Virginia Statute on Privileged Marital Communications, The|author=Duane, James Joseph|url=http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/regulr12&section=12}}</ref> and some dangers of hunting for [[bootstrapper]]s and other mythical monsters.<ref>{{citation|volume=24|publisher=Am. J. Crim. L.|issue=215|date=1996-1997|title=Trouble with United States v. Tellier: The Dangers of Hunting for Bootstrappers and other Mythical Monsters, The|author=Duane, James Joseph|url=http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/ajcl24&section=16}}</ref>