A surprisingly high number of people -- certainly a majority -- just can't keep their mouths shut about anything. If you are the kind of person who can, it's shocking to watch. But as a lawyer, you see it all the time. If a lay witness has bern told not to reveal something, just give them enough time and they will blurt it out.
Originally Posted by TexTushHog
Or they get coerced with threats to their own safety and well-being (jail) if they don't cooperate. Most people wouldn't snitch for the sake of snitching. They do it to save their own asses from something *they perceive* as worse.
Its about riding out the pressure of what may come if they don't give LE what they want. Some people can't handle it; they miss the bigger picture.
Jose shoulda briefed the girls or told his atf to brief them about how to hold it together when/if a raid were to happen. Obviously he wasnt thinking things thru very far anyway or he WOULD HAVE HAD A FUCKING HOBBY PHONE!!!!
Hobby number folks! Hobby number!! If you take nothing else away from this unfortunate story, at the very least get ur ass a hobby phone! A good lawyer maybe could have created reasonable doubt around the witness IDs or shitty surveillance videos but the phone number!! The dood's personal WORK number! That was what really fucked him in the end.