Connecticut lawmakers will consider a bill that would make deceptive tactics when interrogating minors inadmissible in court.
Advocates at a public hearing told lawmakers the bill would make interrogations fairer.
“The reasons to end deceptive interrogations by police are many: an astounding lack of scientific evidence supporting its efficacy, opposition from leading experts, disparate harm to our most vulnerable residents, and Connecticut’s own painful legacy of wrongful conviction stemming from deception," said Jess Zaccagnino of the ACLU of Connecticut.
Advocates say these confessions are often false, and only given to stop the interrogation. If the bill passes, police interviews with children in which the officer knowingly used false facts would be unusable in court.