Pretext Call
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Colorado Supreme Court rules police-guided text messages from victim’s father did not coerce defendant
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a text message exchange between the father of an alleged child sex assault victim and the defendant was not coercive, even though a sheriff’s investigator was guiding the accusatory texts. Patrick Nkongolo stands accused of five counts of sexual assault on a child. His alleged victim told…
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Appeals court rules juries may have unrestricted access to ‘pretext’ calls between sex assault victims, suspects
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday ruled that trial judges may provide juries with unrestricted access during their deliberations to “pretext” phone calls made by sex assault victims to their alleged perpetrators with a goal of eliciting incriminating statements. The Court of Appeals had never before decided whether pretext calls should be treated like a defendant’s…
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Appeals court rules juries may have unrestricted access to ‘pretext’ calls between sex assault victims, suspects
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday ruled that trial judges may provide juries with unrestricted access during their deliberations to “pretext” phone calls made by sex assault victims to their alleged perpetrators with a goal of eliciting incriminating statements. The Court of Appeals had never before decided whether pretext calls should be treated like a defendant’s…