[thomas_howland]

The point is that after you have requested a lawyer they are obliged to refrain from questioning you.

[Simon_says]

They're obliged to, but do they actually?

This guy asked for a "lawyer dog", which apparently is not a thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...

Or will asking for a lawyer work for me, since I'm not ethnically diverse?

[bdowling]

For another take on the “lawyer dog” case, see here[0].

The takeaway is that if you’re asking for a lawyer to be present during questioning, you need to be unequivocal about it.

That, and Lawyer Dog is totally a real thing[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/... [1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lawyer-dog