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Ashethan posted...

He confessed twice to raping and murdering an 11 year old girl. A truly heinous crime. Only thing is... he almost certainly didn't do it. There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, and the semen taken from the girl's body effectively ruled him out. (Prosecutors argued that the semen was from a previous consensual sexual encounter.. which seems a bit odd to argue about an 11 year old girl, seeing as she can't give consent) They did find blood on his shoes--only they also found DNA on his shoes that matched the Semen Sample. Oh yeah, and get this--the shoes with the blood on them? They were bought after the murder happened (The shoes weren't sold in the US before the murder, and they had the receipt from when the shoes were purchased). Detectives also lead him into the details. Like "She had a multicolored shirt on, right?" They also determined he didn't have any information not already had by police. Eventually he was freed.

Sure

But I would argue situations like this one in particular there's a bit more to the matter of "what's the problem" than using rules trickery to get a guy's confession that looked entirely above the table to stick in court. The implication there is there's some underlying matter of implied coercion, or leading the suspect, stuff like that. That would be more along the level of outright cheating in chess or a card game than this one which is more like just not telling them the right moves to make.

None of this stuff is being brought up in the case. In fact, it seems like they have the entire interrogation logged.

Like I'd be with you if it was a more borderline follow up, but the only sense this one seems to be borderline is they didn't hand hold him through the process. It's not their job to hand hold him into all the correct moves-- otherwise there would straight up never be interrogations because it's always smarter to get a lawyer.
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