CRJU 20413 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 – Part 2
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Chapter 5 policing: legal aspects police interrogations pages 152-154. In 2003, illinois became the first state in the nation to require the electronic recording of police interrogations and confessions in homicide cases. State lawmakers hoped that the use of recording would reduce the incidence of false confession as well as the likelihood of convictions based on such confessions. Some argue that the mandatory recording of police interrogations offers overwhelming benefits at minimal cost. Interrogation is the information-gathering activity of police officers that involves the direct questioning of suspects. The first in a series of significant cases was that of brown v. mississippi, decided in 1936. The brown case began with the robbery of a white store owner in mississippi in 1934. A posse formed and went into the home of a local african american man rumored to have been one of the perpetrators.
