Deception in Place of Equal and Impartial Administration of Justice: The Use of Deception When Interrogating Juveniles

Authors

Emily A. Moran, American University Washington College of Law

Journal

American University Administrative Law Review Accord

Volume

9

Issue

1

Abstract

The Exonerated Five, the Groveland Four, Huwe Burton, Peter Reilly, Leon Brown, and hundreds more juveniles have had their convictions overturned because law enforcement agents induced them into making false confessions through deceptive interrogation tactics. A Florida judge exonerated the Groveland Four after decades of jail time because of the prosecution’s gross miscarriage of justice when they were juveniles. Law enforcement coerced Huwe Burton into offering a false confession at sixteen years old, leaving Burton to spend nineteen years in prison. At eighteen, law enforcement induced Peter Reilly into falsely confessing by lying “that he failed a polygraph exam,” resulting in Reilly serving prison time.

Repository Citation

Emily A. Moran, Deception in Place of Equal and Impartial Administration of Justice: The Use of Deception When Interrogating Juveniles, 9 (2024).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/stusch_lawrev/90