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The Florida Legislature Rejects the Mandatory Recording of Police Interrogations

By Ron Chapman

On December 8, 2007, I posted a blog entitled "Police Interrogations Should Always Be Tape Recorded."  Around that same time, an article appeared in the "Florida Defender" (a publication of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL)) which stated that FACDL had been trying for several years to get the Florida legislature to pass a law requiring the mandatory recording of police interrogations.  Finally, in 2006, FACDL's bill was calendared for hearing.  However, it was subsequently withdrawn from the calendar when more than twenty Florida sheriffs showed up in Tallahassee to speak against the bill.In arguing for the mandatory recording of police interrogations, the author of the article (A...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).