{"id":2451,"date":"2014-01-30T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:59:20","slug":"28-england-picks-up-where-it-left-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"28. England Picks Up Where It Left Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4055\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg28-1.png\" alt=\"The law of confessions in the 1600s finally picked up where it had left off 240 years before. 1641: The accused must know what he is accused of, must have a chance to confront the witnesses against him, and can't be forced to confess or accuse himself. 1649: Witnesses, not only defendants, could now refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate them. 1660: Judges started advising people that they had the right to remain silent. 1679: The right to remain silent morphed into a right not to even be questioned, if the questions might elicit an incriminating response, and even in non-criminal proceedings. By the early 1700s these principles were taken for granted in England, and the right against compelled self-incrimination was simply 'self-evident.'\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg28-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg28-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg28-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg28-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-self-incrimination","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}