The Legal Updates Winter 2015 column contains cases which address the following issues:

• Court did not allow David Mantell to testify as an expert on false confessions
• Defendant was not denied effective assistance due to trial counsel's failure to develop and present expert witness testimony concerning claimed involuntariness of his confession
• Defendant was not denied effective assistance due to trial counsel's failure to develop and present expert witness testimony concerning claimed involuntariness of his confession
• Court finds expert testimony regarding false confession phenomenon was not admissible
• Violation of Garrity rule nullifies admissibility of incriminating statement
• The importance of accurate translations by the interpreter - erroneously suggesting a lesser punishment if defendant confessed
• Defendant should have been advised on his rights before questioning in the pat-down room
• Investigator's statement that it was time for the defendant to "come to Jesus" was not a coercive statement
• Court excludes the testimony of Dr. Jorey Krawczyn on false confession issues
• Use of a psychologically-oriented techniques during questioning is not inherently coercive; request to have his mother in the room was not an assertion of his right to remain silent
• Investigators failed to honor the defendant's invocation of his right to silence
• Videotaped interrogation admissible even though investigator repeatedly accused defendant of lying
• Suggesting to the defendant that the stabbing death was self-defense does not render the confession involuntary
• Employing deceptive practices to elicit a confession are not coercive
• 13-year olds statement "Could I have an attorney? Because that's not me" Was an Unequivocal and Unambiguous Invocation of his Rights
• Preamble to the advisement of rights undermined the subsequent Miranda advisement