Good afternoon and welcome to the Cato Institute. We're glad you could come inside and join us on this beautiful day in Washington.

My name is Tim Lynch. I'm the director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice and today we want to welcome Professor James Duane to speak about his important new book. You have the right to remain innocent, how police officers tell their children about the Fifth Amendment.

I also want to welcome Professor Randy Barnett, who will be offering comments on the book.

I'd like to take just a minute or two to lay something of a foundation for today's

discussion, but before I do that, let me ask you to double check your cell phones and make sure that they are silenced as a courtesy to our speakers.

Thank you. One of the ideas we advance here at Cato is that the Constitution needs to be actively defended.

The Constitution is just words on paper if people do not make

an effort to read it, to understand it, and then to defend it. So to get more people

involved with the Constitution, some years ago we published these

pocket constitutions and we have distributed millions of copies of these pocket constitutions

all around the United States and indeed around the world.

And if you look over the Bill of Rights, you'll find that many of the provisions there

deal with the criminal justice system.

You will see references to the jury trial,

speedy trial, your right to confront witnesses,

and other provisions.

But by the time somebody is facing trial, they're already going to have an attorney who is kind of holding their hand and walking them through the system, giving them advice on things that they should do and things that they shouldn't do.

So today we're going to be talking about some provisions of the Bill of Rights that come

into play well before trial.

This is when you are alone with a police officer

or a government regulator.

The Fourth Amendment deals with searches and seizures.

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