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Colorado Supreme Court justice advises police to ‘tread carefully’ when misleading suspects
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Justice Melissa Hart suggested on Friday that police officers interrogating suspects in custody should recognize the “very, very thin line” they walk by making misleading representations during questioning, running the risk that courts will find the suspect’s confession involuntary. “Bottom line: Officers should, I think, tread carefully when they are thinking about whether to use…
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Appeals court overturns Garfield County murder conviction due to coerced confession
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Local, state and federal interrogators coerced a confession out of a murder suspect in Garfield County, and his resulting statements could have affected the jury’s verdict, Colorado’s second-highest court determined on Thursday. There was no question that Gustavo Olivo-Tellez shot and killed his wife in Glenwood Springs early in October 2016. The dispute at trial…
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Former Alamosa County social worker may be held liable for faulty child abuse conviction, court rules
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A former Alamosa County caseworker may be held liable for the false confession contained in her notes that was used to convict a mother of child abuse, the Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. By a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit decided that Marcia Tuggle,…
