A new Senate bill would prohibit law enforcement officers from using deception tactics while interrogating kids.
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It’s in non-white spaces, she said, where students are on higher alert about being coerced, and about the various ways that a single encounter with police can change a person or family forever.There is not much documented evidence that police lies have created lots of situations comparable to Amber Doggett’s in Colorado.charts about 3,000 exonerations in the U.S. since 1989
Said Bacon, of the dearth of documented Colorado cases relevant to her bill, “If three kids are lied to and they lose their lives in jail, that’s bad enough. It shouldn’t matter if it’s 1,000 versus three.” “Let’s say a detective is interviewing somebody in custody who’s believed to have committed a murder outside the Capitol,” said Democratic Boulder D.A. Michael Dougherty to the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaking on behalf of his fellow district attorneys in the state. “The detective falsely says, ‘I have video of you doing it.’ And then the person says, ‘OK, you got me. I did it.
Backers of the bill argue that a false confession not only hurts the person giving the confession but harms public safety, too. An innocent person behind bars means a guilty person who got away with it, bill sponsor Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Democrat from Denver, told her colleagues during the chamber’s debate.
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