Timeline for To what extent can US police lie to a suspect?
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| Apr 17 at 6:50 | comment | added | Kevin | @NeilMeyer: Re "lying about your rights" - There are some really outrageous things the police certainly cannot do (falsifying a Miranda warning, pretending to be the suspect's lawyer), but it is quite routine for police to imply or even outright state that a confession will make things better for the suspect (which is basically never true). This suggestion often involves the phrase "your side of the story." Personally, I am not thrilled with the idea of cops giving bad legal advice to suspects, but the courts do not seem to agree with me. | |
| Apr 16 at 21:57 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @changokun Good question. I can't see any good reason that the answer would be different, but I have never seen authority clearly resolving that question. Anecdotally, I've heard of this happening, but it takes a lot of legal process steps to get from a pre-criminal complaint/indictment lie by law enforcement to a reported precedential appellate court decision, and I am not intimately familiar with the case law in this area. | |
| Apr 16 at 21:23 | comment | added | changokun | If the police can lie to a suspect, can they lie to suspect's counsel? | |
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| Apr 16 at 4:44 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | Why would the prosecution ever describe some part of its evidence as “crucial to the case”? If the jury doesn't buy that bit of evidence, the case could be lost even if other evidence suffices. | |
| Apr 15 at 15:58 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | I think that may be an interesting question. | |
| Apr 15 at 15:31 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @NeilMeyer I've never seen a case on point, so I don't know. It would be a somewhat tricky issue to research because if you were using computerized legal research almost anything you could use to look for it would have lots of confounding cases that involve a similar but not identical issue. | |
| Apr 15 at 14:01 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | I was under the impression that police cannot lie about your rights, is that true? | |
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| Apr 14 at 23:06 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |