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Police Interrogation
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Police chief Edwin Cordero apologised to journalists at a press conference on 31 July about the 18 July interrogation of journalist Luis Felipe Palacios of the La Prensa daily newspaper. The police chief recognized that his men did not respect procedure when they summoned Palacios for questioning and prevented La Prensa photographer Manuel Esquivel from taking photographs.
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Shocking clips from police interrogation tapes show how police spoon-feed details to Chuck Erickson to get a false confession, landing Ryan Ferguson, an innocent young man 40 years in prison. No evidence, no memory, no motive to tie either of these two young men to the murder. Erickson had a dream that he might have somehow been involved. He told friends. Friends called police and Erickson was arrested. He admits during the interrogation that he could be fabricating all of this in his mind.
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Reporters without borders has expressed its concern over the police interrogation of Luis Felipe Palacios, of the daily La Prensa, on 18 July 2002. The questioning came after Palacios reported on the involvement of a high-ranking military officer in acts of corruption. "Every journalist has the right to the protection of sources," declared Reporters without borders Secretary-GeneralRobert Ménard in a letter to Interior Minister Arturo Harding Lacayo. Headded, "Any journalist questioned about information gathered in the courseof their work has the right not to reveal their source," and "cannot be forced to reveal them."
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If you have never been in a Police interrogation....then you have little idea of exactly how intimidating and traumatic they can be. Try remembering how you felt the first time a State Trooper pulled you over for speeding (or whatever) and walked up to you car window to ask for your Driver's License. Chances are your stomach and chest felt tight, your breathing was shallow, your voice tight and nervous. If you knew you were speeding you feared the consequences, and even you weren't speeding...you still felt nervous and upset. If you multiply this by about 10-20 times...you have an idea what a full fledged Police Interrogation feels like.
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Paul Belien, the distinguished editor of the free market blog The Brussels Journal, has been "summoned for interrogation" by the Brussels police for the second time in two months. The first time was for "racism" ——— a plainly false charge, and of course a thought crime requiring government mind—reading for its enforcement. But this time he was brought in for home—schooling his children. Yesterday, June 14, Belien was
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The conviction was overturned due to allegedly intimidating police interrogation methods. After a retrial that included witnesses and other evidence, Miranda was again convicted. His trial was... then assured of being fair, and the original conviction was reasonably upheld without question.
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