Legal Updates Summer 2018
Written By:
Reid
Aug 16, 2018
The Legal Updates Summer 2018 column contains cases which address the following issues
- Interrogation 5 hours after initial advisement of rights was �reasonably contemporaneous� with the initial waiver
- Value of video recording in contradicting defendant�s claims: three cases
- Court rules that confession was the result of coercive statements to the defendant
- Court rules confession should have been suppressed: lack of Miranda advisement and promises of leniency
- Interrogation room and seating arrangement as a consideration in assessing the voluntary nature of the confession: two cases
- Elements of a false confession
- Failure to call false confession expert is not suggestive of ineffective counsel: two cases
- Misrepresentations of evidence by police, although a relevant factor, do not render an otherwise voluntary confession inadmissible
- Detailed analysis of criteria to determine juvenile waiver of rights