He’d make a great expert witness. Horrible advice to a shooter.
He is a moron if he thinks that a lot of glib talking at the scene is going to affect the investigation. No one gets it right immediately after a shooting. And, every mistake the shooter makes on chronology, sounds, movements, statements, appearances, etc. is a lie when it comes to the cold light of day a week or two later
And, half the stuff a prosecutor would ever have to prove, and some of it difficult to prove, is admitted by following that idiot’s bad advice.
Trust me on this. The police do not assume guilt when a person is smart enough to hold back his statement until he has legal advice.
Actually, no. The worst thing you want is a directionless LEO investigation.
1: Make a truthful set of statements as Ayoob dictates.
@: Point out evidence.
#: Do not answer questions
is smarter than staying silent. 10 years ago, silence was best, but today, it is not, because the live perp, or the dead perps friends will lie and tell false “side” of the story to make you look criminally negligent, and that will set the direction of the investigation.
Imagine this scenario. You go one on one with a mugger on the street. He is shot. You are not. You stay silent, while the perp swears he and his three friends we walking down the street when you started calling them “n*****s”, pulled a gun and started blasting. The perp, dead or otherwise, has his gun disappear off the street, or simply say they drew after you started blasting with your gun... and his friends swear to it.
Now put yourself in the place of the cop. Who are you going to target your investigation toward?
When said in the ghetto; “Swear to God, Officer, Swear to God” means the speaker is lying through his teeth.
Remember the Richard “Racehorse” Haynes “defense” of any person accused of murderer. Simply convince the jury that the dead clunk was such a bad guy that if somehow the clunk sprang back to life during Haynes’ closing argument, all 12 members of the jury would wrestle one another to get the gun in evidence to shoot him again, really dead this time!
Short form: “The decedent deserved to die, and my client deserved the honor of killing him.”