Lawyers and law enforcers, what are the most common laws people understand incorrectly?

Many people assume that if the police, in the USA, don't read you your Miranda rights when you're arrested, it means you win the case.

Not so. It only means that you may get things you said excluded from trial.

If you said them in response to police interrogation while in custody,

I got arrested and they didn't read my rights until we got back to the station. Unlike in movies and

TV, where they read them right away usually, the whole time I had a shred of hope that they

would forget and I would get off because of that. It can ruin the DA's entire case, however,

particularly if the person who is arrested makes the classic

mistake of talking to the cops. Basically, if they don't redo your Miranda rights and you subsequently

confess to the crime, that confession goes out the window, along with anything they've got on you

as a consequence of that confession. For example, you confessing and telling them where your stash was,

etc. Unless they can convincingly prove that it was not

as a result of that. For a lot of minor crimes, the DA actually will not pursue it if your Miranda rights

weren't read to you, as the level of difficulty has increased too much. I should point out the above

only applies to evidence gained after arrest while the police are interrogating you. I'm just

clarifying that's what I'm referring to,

not you spontaneously confessing in the back of the cop car. The European Court of Human Rights has

nothing to do with the EU. Actually, I did not know this. It's not quite true. The ECTHR initially had

nothing to do with the EU, but now the EU is a signatory and EU

countries have to be signatories. Tell that to the tabloids. I hate seeing the two conflated so often.

Is this a common error where you're from? It's kind of willful ignorance on behalf of people in the

UK who think we should leave the EU for no reason other than recovering our

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