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For a confession to be accepted in a court, I think that the entire interrogation should have to be filmed and viewed by a grand jury.

Separately I think that it is ridiculous that LE is allowed to lie to you but that it is a crime to lie to federal investigators- they get people on that when they can’t get them on anything else, eg Martha Stewart.

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Then you’d be forced to watch 8-12 hours of interrogation, in some cases multiple times to cover months or years long investigations.

You can’t cut that time down across the board, it produces results. (Obviously it has drawbacks and it’s often not the right results.)

Yes, that is the point. Juries are our justice system’s protection against abuse. If the crime was bad enough for police to sweat someone for 12 hours, then having a jury watch for 12 hours seems a reasonable check and balance - after all they might be saving weeks that would be spent on a trial if there were no confession.

And it puts sunshine all over police interrogation practices- if they are acting professionally then that will show through, but if they are abusing someone that will become visible as well.

At that point you’ll end up with people doing the equivalent of filibustering. Gibberish for weeks on end.

Have you seen how long criminal trials go? Watching interrogations would be a drop in the bucket compared in comparison.

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