Yes, passing the buck is the game for now. And who wouldn’t?
I once knew a prosecutor with an avuncular manner who, in hot cases, used to introduce himself to suspects under arrest by saying that the cops were putting a long list of charges together and that the suspect could clam up and exercise his right to silence and a lawyer or he could try to explain what had happened right now to him and a court reporter.
Unwittingly, suspects would often talk and reveal key details that turned an apparent bar fight or street argument into a first degree murder charge. Unschooled in the law, suspects might not realize that the SOB-had-it-coming is not a valid defense for sticking a knife into someone during a dispute.