Illinois to become first state to ban police officers from lying to minors during interrogations
USA Today | Published on 6/3/2021
To read the full article, visit:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/01/illinois-ban-police-lying-minors-interrogations/7489269002/
To read an article in the New York Times about the same legislation, visit: Illinois Lawmakers Bar Police From Using Deception When Interrogating Minors
For additional reading, visit a story in Reason about how police ignored a 13-year-old boy’s indication he wanted an attorney and lied to him in order to extract a confession – for a murder he didn’t commit. He spent 25 years in prison as a result. And his interrogators are protected by qualified immunity. https://reason.com/2021/05/05/qualified-immunity-police-coerced-confession-art-tobias-los-angeles-9th-circuit/