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A man crashes his car while fleeing the police. He is arrested and read his Miranda rights — constitutional rights that allow one to choose to not answer an officer’s questions and to request an ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court in San Francisco has taken the unusual step of using the word “torture” to describe the treatment of a Palestinian man while he was in CIA custody following the ...

OLYMPIA — Victims of false confessions that lead to wrongful convictions, like Ted Bradford, want to prohibit police from using deceptive tactics during interrogations, and they have the backing of ...

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a 13-hour interrogation of an alcoholic murder suspect who was experiencing ...

A Brandon court saw hours of video Thursday showing a police interrogation on the day Keifer Mecas was arrested in the death of his infant daughter. Mecas, now 34, has pleaded not guilty to ...

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court seemed hesitant on Wednesday to endorse the idea that child welfare workers must provide a Miranda warning before interrogating a parent in custody, even if the ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

In 1982, after a deadly fire in Lowell, police told Victor Rosario that a witness placed him at the scene just before the blaze ignited, and he was later convicted of arson and murder. In 2002, State ...

In 1994, the Supreme Court of Hawaiʻi held in State v. Kekona that the due process clause of the Hawai‘i Constitution does not require custodial interrogations to be recorded. More than 30 years later ...