The family lawyered up, and if innocent, I cannot blame them.

I live in the states, and if I were ever accused of a crime I didn’t commit, I’d get myself an excellent defense attorney, and follow their legal counsel.

It’s tempting to defend one’s self, ESPECIALLY if one knows they’re telling the truth and are innocent. However, here in America, plenty of men and women have been railroaded into prison sentences and even executions, for crimes they did not commit.

Personally, I don’t trust police investigators to handle a case this big, effectively or correctly, and while these investigators aren’t Americans and this did not happen in America, these investigators have proven my sentiments to be correct.

Police are there to pin crimes on people who are guilty of those crimes, and are also willing to pin crimes on people who are convenient yet innocent, patsies.

NEVER talk to police without an attorney present, ESPECIALLY if you’re innocent or if you committed a crime, yet are being charwith something you didn’t do.

I know a woman whose daughter is serving 14 years for giving her boyfriend a ride to someone’s house and the girl claims she did not know he was walking into the house of his alleged friend, to commit armed robbery. Her phone records do show that she was texting her bestie, telling her that she was waiting for her BF to pick up some weed, and that they were going to spend the day at the beach.

Now, if I know that I’m giving someone a ride for that, even at the age of 17, as this young lady was at the time of the armed robbery, I wouldn’t be chillin’ in my car, texting my BFF.

First off, I’d never consent to that and would dump the guy right then and there, literally and romantically, and second, i’d call my parents IMMEDIATELY. But even that would not prevent a prosecutor from coming after me, if I didn’t immediately call police.

Anyhow, this teen girl was prosecuted as an accessory to an armed robbery and assault, because the BF pistol whipped his friend’s mother, before robbing her son’s room of money, drugs, and jewelry.

The girl had no idea what happened until AFTER the BF got in the car, and to her credit, she refused to have him in the car, and drove him back to some other house.

She’s doing 14 years with no priors. Her biggest mistakes were not calling the police immediately after dropping the thief off, and talking to the police when they picked her up for questioning, without an attorney, because she thought she hadn’t done anything wrong.

Was she naive and ignorant? Perhaps, but if she genuinely did not know, and was forced to drop the BF off and was already scared, because she and her BF are black, or if he threatened her, she does NOT deserve 14 years in a woman’s state penitentiary.

Lawyer up, always, even if you did nothing, or were caught up in a crime, unbeknownst to you, AND DID EVERYTHING RIGHT, once you knew the score.

Police aren’t your friends, and their job is to put people in jail, and even innocent or naive people will suffice.