Soooo after another bitter miscarriage of justice with Peter Ellis – are we going to talk about corrupt Police Interrogation techniques or not?
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Sooooooooo, after another bitter miscarriage of justice with Peter Ellis – are we going to talk about corrupt Police Interrogation techniques or not?
How many times do we get told by the cops after a deplorable interview process that borders on bullying a confession out of desperate and simple people, that Police promise to change procedure?
We had it after Police planted evidence in the Arthur Allan Thomas case, we had it after Teina Pora who was interviewed for 5 days in a row, we had it with taking photos illegally from Māori teenagers on the street, we had it with the appalling case of Alan Hall and this year we had a Detective Superintendent who was the architect of a controversial new police interrogation program called the Complex Investigation Phased Engagement Model, caught out lying about his level of involvement in detectives using his model for a case that was eventually kicked out of court because it was manipulating people into making confessions!
Using false memory evidence from children in the Christchurch Creche satanic case with the Peter Ellis case is just the latest evidence of police interrogation techniques that are imprisoning innocent people!
We have a Police interview process that generates false and illegal confessions! I
f all we are trying to do is set people up and convict them of crimes we force them to confess to, that’s not a fucking legal process, that’s a gulag!
How have the NZ Police managed to get away with this with so little media attention?
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Everything failed here.
The mad woman with revived memory of sexual assaults roaming the community for rapists. The Dept of Social Welfare for buying into her madness and launching that massive investigation, the Smart report from Christchurch City Council that pinned this on Ellis and others and off the back of these so called experts evidence, the police, who fell for it hook line and sinker. And the parents who panicked and joined in the witch hunt,
Then the trial that denied Ellis’s lawyers the ability to put the more insane accusations to the jury to show how insane the whole thing was, because the Judge deemed this highly relevant material, irrelevant, to the appeals process that appeared so up its own arse in its own judicial self importance that missed the bloody obvious.
And with the extreme pressure from feminist groups of this me too era for male scalps, it could easily happen again!
Very hard to have faith in our justice system!
You can David Lyttle to the list of those ‘impacted’ by the cops dodgy, desperate interview techniques.