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Legal Updates Fall 2018
Nov 20, 2018
The Legal Updates Fall 2018 column contains cases which address the following issues:
Confession was suppressed when request to stop answering questions was ignored (value of the video in supporting defendant�s...
References to John E. Reid and Associates in Making a Murder Part 2
Nov 05, 2018
In the Netflix series, Making a Murder Part 2, the interrogation of Brendan Dassey is discussed by Attorney Steve Drizen and Attorney Lauara Nirider during the first 15 minutes of Episode...
Factors to consider in the evaluation of the voluntariness of a confession
Nov 01, 2018
In Keyser v. Smith (Sept. 2018) the US District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania, articulated many of the factors that must be considered in evaluating the voluntariness of a confession:
The duration and means...
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office: Interrogation
Oct 11, 2018
The Alameda County District Attorney�s Office has prepared and published an excellent article entitled, Interrogation, which examines numerous interrogation issues, including when pressure becomes coercion, looking at such elements as location of...