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According to Alan M Dershowitz, assistant professor at the Law School, who opposes the code, "It still weights the law to guarantee the constitutional right against self-incrimination only to the rich and the knowledgeable...
...average ignorant, criminal. Dershowitz said, does not know enough to keep silent when he is faced with persistent questioning by the police. The proposed code does any that within the four hour period, "persistent questioning" must cease if the accused wishes to see a lawyer, but Dershowitz pointed out that lawyers are not always available...