Thread: Breaking News: Kurt Angle Arrested
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Old 10-04-2007, 09:57 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by timby
It's valid, actually. By admitting to driving the car, Angle forfeited his Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination. If he had shut his mouth and insisted that he hadn't been out and hadn't been driving, there'd have been no grounds for a citation, much less a court case: The field sobriety test was administered only because he admitted to driving, and it went downhill from there. Essentially, Angle told the cops that he was guilty of DUI, which was then verified from the FST.

If Angle had denied driving the car, there would have been next to no grounds for the officer administering a sobriety test.
That's what I'm saying. I can't believe he admitted to it.
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