Anything You Say Rhetorical Analysis

Anything You Say, follows the interrogation and subsequent conviction of Christopher DiStefano for the murder of Christine Burgerhoff, by the convicted himself. DiStefano asserts insanity and injustice through his tale of unfortunate events leading to what he insists is his wrongful conviction. Further analysis shows that on a technicality DiStefano is correct, he was wrongly convicted. Based on the lack of Miranda Rights given to him, his confession should never have been admissible, however, this does not deem him innocent in the matter. By implementing Reid Techniques, interrogators reveal information, language, and actions, which upon further analysis, exhibit Christopher DiStefano to be the murderer. In the interrogation of Christopher

Pacifico continues with his theme of guilt and cares for Christine stating that he is only trying to do what is best for Christine and asking DiStefano that he wants to help him catch the real killer. He also allows DiStefano to story tell, keeping the emotional introvert involved, he does this when Carlson comes in and Pacifico allows DiStefano to be the one to reiterate his speculation. He makes the suspect say the facts that have Pacifico believe this is the guy while keeping DiStefano engaged in the interrogation. As DiStefano is engaged in the interrogation he slowly becomes increasingly passive, less concerned with his denials and more concerned with evidence and what would happen to him. Pacifico addresses his concerns even writing and signing a statement. As DiStefano became passive Pacifico and Carlson closed in reassuring DiStefano of their confidence in his guilt. Pacifico’s persistence on the idea that they have evidence, forensics, and witnesses, while making statements which Distefano could make assumptions about his future from, brought DiStefano to confessing. Once DiStefano stated he would make a statement Pacifico moved to step 9, getting the written confession. However, this step did not closely follow Reid’s conventions. Reid suggests just the confessor, interrogator, and someone making writing down the confession be present, maybe on a witness at most. However, for DiStefano’s confession, there were two witnesses present as well as the interrogator who also acts as scribe. Although, in the case of DiStefano he specifically requested the presence of another officer, so the act of the second witness could also have been a tactic to ensure the confession would be written down, by appealing