Criminal
Aug. 9, 2024
Lengthy cross on detective's training wins 2 not guilty verdicts
Research and more than two hours in cross-examination of a police detective showed the jury that a false confession had been produced, leading to full acquittal in a child molestation case, a San Diego defense attorney said.
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A lengthy cross examination of a San Diego detective that attorney Logan Noblin described as beating "her around the ears for a while" with a training manual ended a two-week child molestation trial with two not guilty verdicts after one hour of deliberation.
Noblin said Thursday he was able to prove that Police Det. Heather Leavell violated 10 interrogation tactics described in a Behavior Analysis Training Institute (BATI) manual that "tend to produce false confess...
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