Inmate's Case Adds to Debate on Recorded Interrogations
LIVINGSTON — Over the hisses and crackles of the audio tape, Max Soffar slurred his words in 1980 as he confessed to shooting two teenagers while robbing a Houston bowling alley. The two hours of footage followed at least 26 hours of unrecorded questioning over three days, which can only be accessed through the recollections of the police officers present and Soffar himself.
Three decades and two trials later, Soffar, 57, maintains that he never committed the crimes — he says he confessed to shooting the two teenagers while trying to implicate someone else in the shootings at the bowling alley, in ...
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Joe Cutbirth via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What is it about cops that they don't want anything they do recorded? http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/12/judge-enters-permanent-order-allowing-recording-of-152651.html
Mike Sullivan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You'd think they would have CELL phones in prison.
Anya Khan
Recordings should be a cop's best friend. Caveat: I am against the death penalty. AND Prof Leo has never seen a confession he would accept.