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View Poll Results: Does "I don't remember" or "I don't recall" = guilty
yes 22 51.16%
no 21 48.84%
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:18 PM
 
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I usually take this as an admission of guilt. Thoughts?
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:19 PM
 
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It would greatly depend on the topic at hand. If they're being asked about something that happened 20 years ago I would be a little more understanding than say, someone who had sex in the White House a few months before with an intern then forgot all about it.
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:20 PM
 
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I usually take this as an admission of guilt. Thoughts?
It's the adult version of a teenager caught dead to rights and saying "I forgot".

Hell, I used to say it all the time as a kid
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:21 PM
 
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I can't remember if I believe them or not.
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:21 PM
 
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It would greatly depend on the topic at hand. If they're being asked about something that happened 20 years ago I would be a little more understanding than say, someone who had sex in the White House a few months before with an intern then forgot all about it.
I remember things that happened 20 years ago, especially events serious in nature. I even remember trivial events from 20 years ago.l
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:24 PM
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It is just a lame variation of the Bart Simpson defense - I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it and you can't prove a thing. When I hear it, I am 100% sure that the person that said it knows that they did something wrong.
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:25 PM
 
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It is just a lame variation of the Bart Simpson defense - I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it and you can't prove a thing. When I hear it, I am 100% sure that the person that said it knows that they did something wrong.
Why not just say "No comment. I plead the fifth"
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:26 PM
 
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I remember things that happened 20 years ago, especially events serious in nature. I even remember trivial events from 20 years ago.l
Do you also remember things that didn't happen?
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:30 PM
 
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Do you also remember things that didn't happen?
I would just say it didn't happen. I would never say "I don't remember"
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:31 PM
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Why not just say "No comment. I plead the fifth"

That would work in a court of law, not so much in the court of public opinion. If someone says they can't remember, they can't recall or no comment it almost always means that they are guilty. If they weren't, they would just simply answer the question and not play cute with semantics in order to avoid committing perjury.
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