The Legal Updates Summer 2015 column contains cases which address the following issues:

• Court admonishes investigator for not following Reid guidelines
• Value of video recording interrogation to determine competency to waive rights
• 10-year-old can make voluntary waiver of rights and can understand the wrongfulness of his acts
• The effectiveness of an anticipatory invocation of the Miranda-based right to counsel
• Court rejects claim that as a foreign student defendant did not understand the Miranda rights
• Court does not allow Dr. Craig Haney to testify about false confessions
• Military court upholds denial of request for false confession expert assistance
• Competency and the value of video recording the interrogation
• What constitutes interrogation?
• Human Lie Detector testimony inadmissible
• Confession found inadmissible due to promise of no jail and help finding shelter for defendant and her children to live
• Testimony regarding threat of deportation of family members should have been admitted; could cause a coerced confession
• Failure to record the interrogation was a violation of Wisconsin law, but harmless error
• The application of the Garibay test to determine confession admissibility from a non-native English speaker
• Testimony by the investigator that the defendant's answers during a police interview were evasive was acceptable
• Testimony of Dr. James Walker re false confession was not persuasive
• An 'implicit waiver' of the 'right to remain silent' is sufficient to admit a suspect's statement into evidence
• The defendant's claim that he could not read the Miranda waiver form because he did not have his glasses was disproved by the video of the interrogation