Reply #70: I had a friend who was an attorney and went to jail

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The FBI showed up at his house at 7:00 AM on a Sunday. As soon as they flashed badges they asked him if he had done something (complicated, involved him leaking something that showed police misconduct), and he said, "No." He knew as soon as he said it he had really screwed up. He ended up serving 6 months for perjury before a grand jury, and lost his license for two years. The reason he lied to the grand jury was that the sentence for lying to the FBI was actually worse than the perjury, so he took a chance.
Every time I visited him in jail he would shake his head and moan about how many times he had lectured ignorant people who have no knowledge of the law or the system to NEVER talk to a cop without a lawyer, but they set him up and as soon as the word "no" came out of his mouth he was screwed.