Duane has received considerable online attention for his lecture "Don't Talk to the Police", in which he advises citizens to avoid incriminating themselves by speaking to law enforcement officers.
[3] Duane was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society when he was an undergraduate student at Harvard.
[5] Using former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson as support of his "Don't Talk to the Police" advice, Duane says (among other things) that: A video of Duane's lecture posted on YouTube by Regent University has been viewed over 20 million times by 2025, and has been called a "YouTube sensation" by The Independent.
[9] The lecture continues to be popular on YouTube and received support from security expert Bruce Schneier.
[10] Duane has also written about his views that there are bizarre legislative drafting errors in the Virginia Statute on Privileged Marital Communications[11] as well as issues involving the introduction of hearsay evidence at trial (known as "bootstrapping").