Can a police force trick a suspect into confessing?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Centeno, G051761 (Cal. App. 2017):

has long been held that the police may utilize a variety of "deceptive stratagems to trick [a suspect] into confessing." (People v. Chutan (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 1276, 1280.)

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