In case similar to the Stephanie Crowe murder, a 16-yr-old Black youth was accused of killing his mother, and he "confessed" after long hours of relentless interrogation by police. He spent 20 years in prison. A New York district attorney is now investigating this case and other similar cases, as …
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She’s So Cold
The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case A Defense Attorney's Inside Story By Donald E. McInnis In She's So Cold, Donald McInnis reveals how police coerced false confessions from innocent teenage boys, and lays out proposals for criminal justice system reforms that include a new Miranda warning …
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Murder Investigation of
12-Year-Old Spawns Police Reform Proposals
Defense Attorney Gives Insider's Perspective on Coerced Confessions from Innocent Youths February 1998: The small town of Escondido, California, reeled from the breaking news that not only had three teenage boys been charged with the murder of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe, but one of the boys was …