"Maryland?s LEOBoR includes a provision that the officers cannot be forced to make any statements for 10 days after the incident, during which time they are presumed to be searching for a lawyer.
It is partly because of this "cooling-off period" ? to critics, a convenient delay for the cops to tidy up their stories ? that so little has been said by the only people who know what took place within that vehicle.
The standard LEOBoR also provides that an officer may only be questioned for a reasonable length of time, at a reasonable hour, by only one or two investigators (who must be fellow policemen), and with plenty of breaks for food and water".
