I'm not saying there's a good chance of that happening, but why even take the risk at all? It's not like you can just stroll on down to the court and tell the judge you didn't do it and have the case dropped. At best you come out of it without doing any jail time while paying thousands in lawyer fees.
When I bought my house a few years back I had been living there for about 6 months when I was doing some work in the garage one day. I was cleaning stuff off of this home made shelf deal way up in the joists when I found a revolver with the serial numbers filed off. I ended up calling the cops and they sent an officer out to get it with no questions asked. But what if I hadn't known about that and I voluntarily let an officer search my place at some point? They could end up finding a throwaway gun that has ties to a murder and now I'm getting charged or at least getting interrogated. None of which sounds appealing to me so I'd much rather never take the risk.
Some cops get recognition or feel self worth by just throwing someone in prison. You've seen those shows where guys are wrongly accused and the evidence supports it, yet the initial cop that filed the charges never admits that he was wrong. He would rather send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life than just admit he was wrong and that he had the wrong guy. Not all cops are like that but you don't want to take the chance of running into one that is.
When I bought my house a few years back I had been living there for about 6 months when I was doing some work in the garage one day. I was cleaning stuff off of this home made shelf deal way up in the joists when I found a revolver with the serial numbers filed off. I ended up calling the cops and they sent an officer out to get it with no questions asked. But what if I hadn't known about that and I voluntarily let an officer search my place at some point? They could end up finding a throwaway gun that has ties to a murder and now I'm getting charged or at least getting interrogated. None of which sounds appealing to me so I'd much rather never take the risk.
Some cops get recognition or feel self worth by just throwing someone in prison. You've seen those shows where guys are wrongly accused and the evidence supports it, yet the initial cop that filed the charges never admits that he was wrong. He would rather send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life than just admit he was wrong and that he had the wrong guy. Not all cops are like that but you don't want to take the chance of running into one that is.