In the last 13 years the Connecticut Supreme Court has reviewed 20 similar cases in which the issue of police interrogation was reviewed. As Betsy Yagia reports in THE NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE, the Justices have focused on only one niche of that. That is if and how the Miranda warning was given. Currently the CT SC is looking at the manner in which Julian Lockhart was interrogated by two CT troopers who apprehended him in Georgia regarding a CT murder.
But most of us are concerned about the broader matter of police interrogation in general. After so much "CSI" and "Law & Order," with some legal programs like "The Good Wife" thrown in, we have become suspicious of how police seem to "lead" the suspect. In addition, there are all the questions surrounding what led American in Italy Amanda Fox to sign a confession after what she describes as a brutal interrogation process.
Don't we fear to be not watching interrogations on TV but being the folks seemingly being manipulated? It seems common sense that the public would be pressuring legal leaders for audio and/or video recordings of all police questioning of a suspect.
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