By the time Dennis Green realized he was in a whole lot of trouble and asked for a lawyer, he said, the detectives interrogating him simply refused. [...] After day became sleepless night in the interrogation room, Green confessed to pulling the trigger -- even though he did not have a gun and prosecutors later acknowledged that he was a victim in the melee. [...] a review of hundreds of police and court documents and interviews with dozens of other suspects and lawyers found repeated allegations that homicide detectives violated the rights of suspects during interrogations. Among the allegations: In many cases, detectives backdated documents so that it appeared that suspects waived the right to counsel before they confessed, and turned away lawyers from the interrogation room door with false claims that the client didn't want to speak with them.
Ah, life in our nation's capital. (Or rather, near it.) We can all just be so proud of that, can't we?
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