In fact, for either situation (your buddy doesn't talk or he does) you'll do better to talk than to not.
No, I don't think so. Then there's no dilemma. I think you don't walk if he goes down for it, but you get a lighter sentence.
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-t - Apr 08, 2008 10:29:53 am PDT #338 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Apr 08, 2008 10:30:19 am PDT #339 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Okay, but if you know that if you both keep quiet, you walk, then why would your buddy talk?
Hmm. I am, it seems, exceedingly naive and not cut out for a life of crime and thuggery.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 10:32:07 am PDT #340 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Okay, but if you know that if you both keep quiet, you walk, then why would your buddy talk?
No, if you both keep quiet, you both get a short sentence. So if your buddy doesn't talk and you do, then you walk. So even in that case, you're better off talking.
Jessica - Apr 08, 2008 10:32:15 am PDT #341 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I always thought that if you both keep quiet, you'll do a minimal sentence. You only go free if you squeal on the other guy (who then does 10 years or whatever).
Laga - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:06 am PDT #342 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I am, it seems, exceedingly naive and not cut out for a life of crime and thuggery.
it's OK. I wouldn't talk either. Maybe we can share a cell after our accomplices rat us out.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:17 am PDT #343 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I always thought that if you both keep quiet, you'll do a minimal sentence. You only go free if you squeal on the other guy (who then does 10 years or whatever).
Yeah, that's the way I've always heard it. Plus in Tom's quote (from wikipedia?) above, that's the way it is too.
-t - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:20 am PDT #344 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lawyer up and don't say nothing.
What erika said, Tep. The cops'll tell him you talked and tell you he talked, with props and whatnot to be convincing.
Dana - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:47 am PDT #345 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yeah, I gotta say, my answer is totally different if Frank Pembleton is in the box with me.
Laga - Apr 08, 2008 10:33:55 am PDT #346 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
On Wikipedia it says if you talk and your buddy doesn't, you go free and he gets ten years. If neither of you talk, you both get six months. And if you both talk you each get five years.
Tom Scola - Apr 08, 2008 10:34:52 am PDT #347 of 10001
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