The Legal Updates Fall 2014 column contains cases which address the following issues:

• Court allows surreptitious video recording of incriminating statement into evidence
• Court rules that Dr. Shawn Roberson would not be allowed to testify on false confession issues at trial
• Counsel's failure to retain expert witness on false confessions was matter of reasonable trial strategy
• Social Security Fraud
• Failure to develop and present expert testimony on false confession issues is does not indicate ineffective counsel (value of video taping interrogation)
• Value of video recording to demonstrate confession voluntariness
• Court rejects testimony of forensic psychiatrist that defendant fits the profile of someone who would be susceptible to giving a false confession
• Police are not required to give Miranda advisement of persons they suspect or question, even in a police station, absent custody
• Court rejects the suggestion that a loss of visitation rights was coercive
• Juvenile interrogation - confession volutariness issues
• Repeated implied promises of leniency nullify confession admissibility
• Defendant who scored 53 on IQ test can give a knowing and intelligent waiver of his rights
• Court finds confession was result of coercive police interrogation - the importance of using extreme care when questioning an individual with limited mental capacity
• Confession voluntariness and the exclusion of clinical psychologist at guilt phase (value of video recording)
• Pre-arrest silence cannot be used as substantive evidence of guilt