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Often the result of an [[Exasperated Perp]].
Another type of ''Don't Answer That'' (featured in ''[[The Closer]]'' frequently, and both nonfiction-book and fictional-TV versions of ''[[Homicide: Life
Legally speaking, the detectives can ask anything they want once the lawyer is available to the client, but if the lawyer asks or demands to speak to the client alone, then police officers are required to leave the room or otherwise allow a private discussion. The fact that the the lawyers in TV shows simply tell their clients not to answer something does not prevent the detectives from continuing to question. Which usually means that the lawyers are pretty damn ineffectual.
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* If a suspect on ''[[Bones]]'' has a lawyer, they are invariably there for the purpose of saying this.
* Same with most of the variants of ''[[Law and Order]]''
* Subverted in ''[[New Tricks]]'', where the obstructive defense lawyer is secretly working with the police to force out a confession from his client (they create a scene where the questioning officer flies into a rage at how annoying the DA is and seemingly shoots him, scaring the perp into a blubbering wreck)
** Well that guy has a promising future ahead of him. [[You Fail Law Forever|Once he finds a new profession, of course]].
*** The 'lawyer' is actually an [[Old-Fashioned Copper]] (it's a situation where the suspect is technically not entitled to a lawyer but is stubbornly refusing to speak without one), and [[Running Gag|technically the others aren't actually cops any more]].
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