{"id":56,"date":"2014-05-14T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handponist.lawblogger.net\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:06:46","slug":"indiana-supreme-court-holds-police-interrogation-went-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/blog\/indiana-supreme-court-holds-police-interrogation-went-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Supreme Court Holds Police Interrogation Went Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordinarily, I leave this area of the law to the my partner, Susan Rayl, but today (well, yesterday by the time I\u2019m writing this) the Indiana Supreme Court<\/a> issued a decision, written by Justice Stephen David, that caught my attention. In Bond v. State<\/a><\/em>, the Court held that the defendant\u2019s confession was involuntary, and therefore inadmissible as evidence against him, because it was obtained through interrogation by a police officer who told the defendant, an African American from Gary, Indiana, that his race would prevent him from getting an impartial jury or a fair trial.<\/p>\n

The officer\u2019s interrogation strategy was to persuade the defendant that the police knew he was guilty and that the only way he could improve his situation was to confess. Over a period of three hours, the officer suggested that the defendant might be charged with a less serious crime if he confessed and told the defendant that a confession would allow him to see his children and talk to his mother. Then, about two hours into the interrogation, the officer told the defendant:<\/p>\n

[d]on\u2019t let twelve people who are from Schererville, Crown Point\u2013white people, Hispanic people, other people that aren\u2019t from Gary, from your part of the hood\u2013judge you. Because they\u2019re not gonna put people on there who are from your neck of the woods. You know that. They\u2019re not gonna be the ones to decide what happens to you. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. All they\u2019re gonna see is, oh, look at this, another young motherf***** who didn\u2019t give a f***.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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