coercion
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Appeals court finds Broomfield police did not coerce confession over phone
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Colorado’s second-highest court determined last month that Broomfield police did not coerce a telephone confession out of a suspect by telling him a detective was “not going to look for you.” Within minutes of answering law enforcement’s call while he was in Mexico, Ricardo E. Munoz-Diaz admitted to killing Amalia Karolina Lopez-Leon in her home. He…
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10th Circuit denies immunity to Denver detectives who coerced teenager’s false murder confession
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Four Denver law enforcement officers may be sued for the coerced confession of a cognitively-impaired 14-year-old boy, resulting in false information that led to his wrongful conviction for murder, the federal appeals court based in Colorado ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a strongly-worded…
