Their suggestions are available to you right now.Posted by benbernanke: The legal experts in this forum are experienced and knowledgeable about these issues, but they will not be there to instruct you when it comes time.
Might I suggest that forensic evidence and witness testimony that proves that you shot someone will go a long way toward your conviction, in the absence of evidence supporting a claim of justification, whether you say anything or not?The prosecutor does not get convictions based upon what they suspect. They only get convictions based on the evidence.
How about the witnesses that slipped away, never to be seen again? How about evidence that walked away, blew away, or washed away before they noticed it. Do you want to bet your life on that? You, and only you, can mitigate that risk, by saying something at the right time.The reality is that any incident involving a shooting is going to be thoroughly investigated no matter if you give a statement or not. Every witness is going to be talked to. Every inch of that crime scene will be gone over thoroughly by multiple officers and detectives. They will even take lots of pictures. Those guys will not miss anything.
In the vast majority of shootings, self defense is not an issue, and in the experience of your "multiple officers and detectives", the task before them will have been to identify and protect evidence to close the case against the shooter. Unless they have some reason at the time to look for evidence that would help your case, it is unlikely that they will identify it as such.