friendly reminder that the whole “when you’re arrested you have one phone call” thing isn’t real it’s a thing that tv crime dramas made up
you have a constitutional right to an attorney and you can have as many phone calls, smoke signals, carrier pigeons, etc, as it takes to contact your attorney.
contacting anyone else (a partner, a parent, a babysitter, whatever) isn’t actually a right that can be denied to you,
but it might be more trouble than it’s worth to ask cops for a phone for these purposes,
so when your attorney shows up, you can use their phone to make those calls. there’s nothing that legally prevents you from doing so
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(Source: bengaliprincess, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
