That’s all good fun. And for every one of those scenarios, there is one where someone innocent is lied into a confession.
And it also brings to mind the FBI and “Trump is a Russian asset” investigations. They go to people and say “we have the goods on Trump, incontrovertible evidence”, are you going to cooperate or are you maybe involved too?”
Your lies were fun and productive. But they should destroy a criminal case you would try to bring.
Cops will explain that if they arrest you , you must be guilty. Since guilty people lie, cops should lie in order to get conviction! You do not have to go through police interrogation, Invoke fifth amendment, ask for lawyer and shut up. After olympic bombing, Richard Jewell who was a hero and saved many lives ,didn’t even understand that cops thought he was the suspect. He wanted to help them and the cops wanted to put him in prison for life.
Your lies were fun and productive. But they should destroy a criminal case you would try to bring.
That reminds me of how the prosecution blew the OJ case when they decided they would frame a guilty man.
In two of the scenarios no one confessed to me. In the lottery money theft I lied, and the girl who stole the money showed me where it was. No arrest. No prosecution. But she was far from innocent.
"And it also brings to mind the FBI and “Trump is a Russian asset” investigations. They go to people and say “we have the goods on Trump, incontrovertible evidence”, are you going to cooperate or are you maybe involved too?”
My investigations centered on a suspect. I didn't need to to go to people who weren't involved. If you can fit that example to my investigations then you can fit it to any other investigation.