The Legal Updates Summer 2013 contain cases which address the following issues:

• Witness Credibility
• Statementís such as ìpeople who were honest with the police would be helped differently than those who lied about their guiltî led to an inadmissible confession
• Kansas Supreme Court recommends electronic recording of interrogations
• Court rules that polygraph examination is not a search
• Court rejects the testimony of Dr. Bruce Frumkin
• Low score on IQ tests does not mean the suspect is incapable of making a voluntary confession
• The value of video recording ñ intoxication and sleep deprivation
• The value of video recording ñ Spanish speaking defendant and intoxication
• California Supreme Court upholds exclusion of testimony by Dr. Richard Leo ñ the proffered testimony was ìextremely speculativeî
• Attorney not negligent for deciding not to use false confession expert at trial
• Improper interrogator behavior
• Court excludes the testimony of Dr. Richard Ofshe on false confession issues ñ no requirement to record interrogation
• A promise of leniency: ì[e]verybody gets a clean slate when they turn 17î
• Court allows Dr. Richard Leo to testify on false confession issues
• Fish and Game officers did not have to make an advisement of rights on a roadside stop