The criminal defendant’s precious “right to remain silent” is under an unprecedented assault these days, according to top Connecticut defense lawyers. It’s not from police or prosecutors. The threat comes from the defendants themselves.
The cell phone has become an all-purpose evidence-generating device, saving texts and tweets all day long, and permanently. And with cell tower locations and GPS tracking, retracing peoples’ whereabouts is easy to reconstruct. “It’s like these spy movies you see, where somebody’s on a phone tracking another person’s location.” said Day Pitney’s Stanley Twardy Jr. Add to that blogging, e-mails and Facebook posts, and it’s become commonplace for even people of modest means to become human broadcast centers.
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