so the police say we have found your fingerprints at a crime scene you need to tell us your side of the story to help us understand why they're there this is a very common trick that police will use in police interrogations and the courts have found that it's reasonable for them to do this this is a lie if they actually had the Fingerprints of yours at a crime scene they would already have enough evidence probably to get a warrant for your arrest and they wouldn't need you to explain why they're there they don't have your fingerprints at a crime scene but the police are allowed to lie to you and tell you that they do and if that elicits your confession the courts have held that that confession is reasonable because the police are allowed to lie and use tactics like that to get people to confess bottom line cops are allowed to lie to you but you're not allowed to lie to them so why would you ever talk to them