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Latest case in point is Escobedo v. Illinois. In 1960, Chicago police questioned a 20-year-old Mexican laborer named Danny Escobedo until he admitted complicity in his brother-in-law's slaying. The police never advised Danny of his right to remain silent; he was not allowed to...
Manhattan D.A. Frank Hogan's investigators were soon less sure. Before signing his confession, Whitmore claimed that he had plucked the snapshot from his fathers junkyard in Wildwood, N.J., to "show my friends I've got a white girl." Last fall the D.A.'s men displayed the...
As for the confession, during psychiatric examinations at Bellevue Hospital, Whitmore painfully wrote that he had been "hit many times" by police interrogators. "Then I was so squared that I was shakeing all over. And before I know it, I was saying yes. I was so squared if they would...
Three-Act Drama. When a man is accused, of several crimes committed in a short period, many lawyers feel that fair practice is to try him first on the most serious charge. With only the now-suspect confession to go on, the prosecutors took a different tack. In the murder...
Revealing Statement. On the arrest of Robles, D.A. Hogan finally issued a 1,400-word statement clearing Whitmore of the Wylie-Hoffert murders, though not of the Brooklyn murder, which is not in Hogan's jurisdiction. One of Hogan's assistants declared: "I am positive that the police...