The Legal Updates Fall 2013 contain cases which address the following issues:

• Statement the defendant would be taken home if he was honest did not require exclusion of the statement
• Court expresses concerns interrogation was not recorded
• Value of recording - defendant claimed interrogator's hostile and aggressive tone of voice led to a coerced confessionValue of video recording interrogation
• Detective's statements during the interrogation telling defendant that he thought she was lying were admissible
• Expert testimony allowed on the impact of opiate addiction on confession reliability
• 12-year-old should have been advised of his Miranda rights
• Value of video in protecting a confession
• Referring to Miranda rights as a formality does not jeopardize the waiver
• What level of intoxication renders a confession inadmissible?
• Invocation of defendant's children as a method to get a confession ruled not coercive
• Interrogator's statements that defendant's ability to "speak plainly," "face-to-face" with his "case agent" would be of limited duration and, critically, would evaporate when "the lawyers [got] involved" should be avoided, but do not create a coercive environment