utbagpiper
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I haven't read the ruling, but the media report on this is enough to fascinate me. I note that this appears to be the same officer who shot and killed the illegally armed man recently in Roosevelt, Utah. That thread is over at http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/showthread.php?129797-Roosevelt-police-kill-gunman/page2 .
No doubt this article could be fodder for additional discussion on that thread.
But here, I think it would be more interesting to discuss the limits on police interrogation techniques imposed by the court in this case.
The full article is at the Deseret News (no fee nor registration required to read).
Some fair use excerpts:
Charles
No doubt this article could be fodder for additional discussion on that thread.
But here, I think it would be more interesting to discuss the limits on police interrogation techniques imposed by the court in this case.
The full article is at the Deseret News (no fee nor registration required to read).
Some fair use excerpts:
DeseretNews said:Eighth District Judge Ed Peterson wrote in a blistering 33-page ruling handed down Wednesday that Roosevelt Police Lt. Pete Butcher misled a judge to obtain a warrant for the arrest of Joshua Platte Shumway, used coercive interrogation tactics while interviewing Shumway and failed to fully advise him of his Miranda rights.
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"The court finds that the combination of detective Butcher presenting himself as a man of God, and lying to (Shumway) about the amount and type of evidence against him, particularly powerful in overcoming the defendant's will," Peterson wrote.
Charles