WA Lawmakers revisit bill that would prohibit police deception in interrogations
From left to right: Felix Luna of Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna, the civil attorneys whose investigation uncovered DNA match for 1995 rape case in which Ted Bradford was wrongly convicted; Ted Bradford, who was exonerated from the 1995 rape conviction; Jackie McMurtrie, founder of Innocence Project Northwest, the organization whose work led to Bradford's exoneration. A new bill being considered in Olympia aims to prevent deceptive interrogation practices like those that led to Bradford’s erroneous conviction.
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OLYMPIA — Lawmakers in Olympia are revisiting a bill that would block law enforcement from lying during interrogations after a similar measure failed to advance to the Senate last session.
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