Criminal – Right to remain silent – Waiver

Criminal – Right to remain silent – Waiver

Where a defendant was convicted of rape, the conviction should be affirmed despite the defendant’s argument that the police failed to honor his invocation of the right to remain silent, as he waived that argument by not raising it in his motion to suppress.

Trial of Álvaro Uribe Vélez; At this Monday's hearing in the trial of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez for alleged procedural fraud and witness tampering, attorney Samuel Arturo Sánchez Cañón was presented as a new witness for the Prosecutor's Office, but he decided to invoke his constitutional right to remain silent, as he faces criminal proceedings related to similar events. From the Judicial Services Center in Manizales and connected virtu…