You have the right to shut up!
Any stupid thing you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Your have the right to an attorney.
If your broke ass can’t afford an attorney one will be appointed to you.
(The Closer – Det. Julio Sanchez)
Trump has again gone on his Truth Social and caused himself more legal problems. The guy is is own worst enemy but he can’t bring himself to STFU when it comes to the legal problems he’s facing. Even when now, for the first time since he was a young guy working for his dad and dealing with DOJ criminal charges instead of civil ones are on the table. Instead of only fines, he could find himself locked up.
I have no doubt his lawyers have asked him repeatedly, begged and pleaded with him in fact to, when it comes to any state or federal charges he’s been indicted for or is almost certain to be indicted for (and soon) to please, PLEASE just SHUT UP! He can’t. He’s not wired that way. It’s like he’s afflicted with some weird combination of narcissistic political Tourette’s. This isn’t news. He has a long, decades long history of two things when it comes to his lawyers – stiffing them on fees and ignoring their advice. He’s Trump. Name anything and in his mind he knows more than anyone ever about it and/or is the best there ever was at it.
No one has ever been able to get through to him what any normal, or even fairly crazy person understands when in legal trouble which is when your lawyer(s) says keep you mouth shut and let ME/US do the talking to actually do so. Even if he paid his legal bills, and in a timely fashion he’d still have trouble these days getting top flight legal representation. Because he doesn’t listen to his lawyers! If you’re a reputable white collar lawyer, one who is on every rich/powerful person’s short list if they need legal help Trump is the last person you want as a client. It’s popular to say everything Trump touches dies, and that’s as true of the reputations of formerly well respected lawyers as anything/anyone else.
Which brings me to the title of this article. You may or may not be familiar with a procedural drama, a summer series of original programming that ran on TNT between 2005-18. It started off as The Closer, and in 2012 when the lead character left became Major Crimes. Other than Kyra Sedgewick leaving as head of the LAPD’s Major Crimes division and Mary McConnell who’d become a series regular taking over the squad of elite detectives only one other original core cast member left, although others were added in over the years. It was interesting to watch the changes, almost always positive ones in the characters over the run of the popular show.
One person there from start to finish was Raymond Cruz who played Detective Julio Sanchez. He was assigned to the original Priority Homicide Division (it would be renamed after a few years, while Sedgewick was still in charge) due to his work in the CI (confidential informant) division and his knowledge of the city’s gangs. He was born and raised in East LA and still lived their in his own house near his mother. Unlike most of the males in his family and his friends growing up he avoided getting into gang life and wound up becoming a cop. Sanchez was a tough, hard person with clear anger management issues which we’d learn the root of in the last season. He was intense and passionate about protecting good people from bad ones, and was pretty rough around the edges. Which masked the fact he was smart and capable. He could also at time be surprisingly warm. But mostly he was tough. Often more so than he had to be when making arrests.
In one episode, the team set up in a vacant apartment they thought the killer they were seeking would come to in order to retrieve a laptop he though had video of him murdering his old high school friend – who’d become a drug mule for him. This particular criminal wasn’t the brightest of guys, and the cold blooded murder of a desperate guy who’d become a mule to try and hold his family and life together was just the kind of guy that would particularly offend someone like Sanchez. A long time “doper” murdering a family man. Needless to say when “hooking him up” Sanchez wasn’t gentle although he didn’t outright abuse the guy.
When Chief Johnson is shown the ring on the criminal’s hand, the same one the video showed the killer wearing (alas it didn’t show his face) she nodded and Sanchez starts muscling the guy to the door. And gives THE best version of the Miranda warning ever – the one that leads off this article.
I wish there was a clip of it on YouTube but there isn’t one and I have no clue how to create one. So you’re stuck with the written version and my description of things.
However I can’t help but wonder if maybe Ray Cruz was hired to give Trump the “Sanchez treatment” it might break through. And at least some of the time listen to his lawyers! I’m not sure Cruz would take the gig even if offered a pretty penny to do so. But wouldn’t you love to see Trump not exactly roughed up, but also not being treated with any form of gentleness either and having some LE type, especially a non-white one (no matter that they grew up with English as their first language and had no accent other than a working class one) give him his Miranda Rights like Sanchez?
I’d cough up a pay-per-view fee to see it!
Yes, I loved the closer & all those actors! I found it a lol funny, human, entertaining & intelligent series! I watched it from the first episode of the “Closer”, to the last, “Major Crimes!”
Me too Diane, both shows were great!