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Of course, most people think about how to cover up and try their best to use their intelligence to paint themselves as innocent lambs.
Usually, interrogations under these circumstances yield very good results.
One can pretend to be an innocent lamb, but whether or not one truly is determined by evidence. If you're not a real innocent lamb, you can't fully pull off the act.
Most importantly, intelligence is a matter of degree. Although most people consider themselves above average in intelligence, prison veterans will tell you, "The more you say, the more mistakes you're bound to make."
It's like when a couple breaks up or gets divorced; even if someone goes to great lengths to justify their own rightness and suffering, and the other's wrongness and malice, no matter how much time they spend contemplating and concealing, those around them can still hear where they went wrong.
Even their close friends and relatives can detect the faults and omissions in their narrative.