Credit: africa-studio.com (Olga Yastremska and Leonid Yastremskiy)Deception or Coercion? California Supreme Court Grants Review in Jailhouse Confession Case
In People v. Allen, California's high court will consider whether police can pose as inmates to obtain confessions even after suspects invoke their Miranda rights.
November 27, 2024 at 05:01 PM
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On April 28, 2016, David Lee Allen did what any defense attorney would plead with him to do in his situation: He told police he didn't want to talk.
Authorities had fingered Allen and two fellow members of the Harbor City Crips gang for a 2014 shooting outside a Los Angeles neighborhood lounge that left one man dead and another injured. A detective and police officer told Allen they'd already talked to the two other suspects, and now they wanted to hear what he had to say. They read Allen his Miranda rights.
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