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· 10/10/1997

People v. V.L.T.

Citations

  • 292 Ill. App. 3d 728
  • 226 Ill. Dec. 700
  • 686 N.E.2d 49
  • 1997 Ill. App. LEXIS 716

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • conduct of police in keeping suspect separate from grandmother \suggests the police attempted to coerce a confession\
  • “[b]ecause a juvenile is ‘an easy victim of the law,’ her confession will be deemed inadmissible if an examination of the facts reveals that it was ‘a confession wrung from a child by means which the law should not sanction’ ” (quoting Haley, 332 U.S. at 599, 601)

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Judges: Inglis

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