[dpark]

You generally don't have a right to a court-appointed counsel in a criminal case, either. That only applies if you cannot afford one.

Although the parent was referring to the fact that you have a right to have an attorney present for any police questioning. But again, that does not apply here, since the police presumably weren't the ones doing the questioning.

[glibgil]

Yep and when confronted by Tesla he had the opportunity to say, "let's talk about this later"