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PRINT THIS NOTICE TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT!

The following statement can be used to preserve your rights, and your chances of winning your criminal case, if you are ever arrested:

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NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
(FEDS, POLICE, INSPECTORS, PROSECUTORS, ETC.)


PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, my lawyer has instructed me not to talk to anyone about my case or anything else, and not to answer questions or reply to accusations. On advice of counsel and on grounds of my rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, I shall talk and no one in the absence of counsel. I shall not give any consents or make any waivers of my legal rights. Any requests for information or for consent to conduct searches or seizures or investigations affecting my person, papers, property, or effects should be addressed to my lawyer: Paul Puri, Attorney at Law, 225 Bush Street, 16th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94104, Tel. 415.295.4799. I want all communications with the authorities henceforth to be made only through my lawyer. I request that my lawyer be notified and allowed to be present if any identification confrontations, tests, examinations, or investigations of any sort are conducted in my case, and I do not consent to any such confrontations, tests, examinations, or investigations.


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Print this statement, and cut it out. Put multiple copies in your car, your house, your wallet, etc. Of course, you should have an attorney whom you can call. You should consult an attorney, if you have questions regarding how this statement may be used to protect you.

The short explanation is that it will preserve your rights, prevent confessions/admissions from occurring or being admissible if they do occur (i.e., because the police ignored the notice). Evidence obtained in violation of this notice, could be suppressed, potentially causing your case to get dismissed.

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