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Denver Police Sued by Man Coerced Into Murder Confession at Age of Fourteen

June 22, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1674 Views Accountability, Civil rights, CO, coerced confession, Colorado, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, David Fisher, Denver, Denver homicide detectives, denver police department, Dishonesty, DNA, Double Standard, Emily Johnson, false confession, false conviction, Fox 31 Denver, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, innocent, interrogation, Justice System, kelly patterson, Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, lawsuit, life sentence, Lisa Polansky, murder, new years, police, police abuse, police accountability, police interrogation tape, Police State, rights, teacher, video

When he was just fourteen years old Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, was arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder. Initially,

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Appeals Court Upheld Conviction of Commander Burge Who Presided Over Torture of Suspects

April 12, 2013April 10, 2013 CopBlock 1181 Views Brutality, Civil rights, coerced confession, Coerced Confessions, confession, criminal injustice system, Criminal procedure, Dishonesty, Double Standard, Featured, Harassment, Human rights, illegal interrogation, Immunity, injustice, Interrogations, police, police abuse, police procedure, Police State, Qualified Immunity, Torture

The 7th Circuit upheld the conviction of a police commander who “presided over an interrogation regime where suspects were suffocated

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Police Coerced a (False) Murder Confession From a Severely Mentally Handicapped Man.

November 22, 2012January 1, 2014 CopBlock 966 Views coerced confession, Matthew Livers, MN, Nebraska State Patrol, Nicholas Sampson, Sharmon Stock, st louis, Wayne Stock

ST. Louis, MN – Police investigators must face claims that they coerced a murder confession from a severely mentally retarded

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