Can they keep questioning me after I ask for a lawyer?
A clear request for counsel requires questioning to cease. Officers can't continue, and they can't return later to try again on the same matter, absent specific circumstances.
Two things commonly undermine this.
The request wasn't clear enough. See the prior answer. A hedged request may not trigger the protection at all, and officers are permitted to keep going.
The person re-initiated. If you ask for a lawyer and then start talking again on your own, that can be treated as reinitiating contact and waiving the protection you just invoked. Officers sometimes wait, and ordinary conversation can drift back into the subject. The invocation protects you from their questions, not from your own volunteering.
There's also a timing distinction that matters: an ambiguous statement made *after* a valid waiver is treated differently — and less favorably — than one made before any waiver.
After you ask, stop talking entirely. The protection only holds if you let it. ---
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