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With this law on the books they often operate under the same practice/advice you hear given to attorneys in court: "only ask questions you already know the answer to".

In many/most cases if they're asking questions they already know the truth behind at least some of them. They are attempting to leverage you into cooperating against co-conspirators or at least be able to hit you with a felony for misleading/false statements in the event the original investigation doesn't pan out to charges.



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