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Share Photo: (Photo : Thomas Timlen/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)) Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a new law to ban Illinois cops from lying to kids under interrogation. Signed on July 15, the law makes Illinois the first state in America to make the deceptive tactic illegal. Police officers in Illinois may no longer fake evidence or provide false promises to children under 18 years old who are brought in for questioning, especially juvenile suspects, to make them confess. If the confession was drawn out through deceptive tactics, it would become "inadmissible as evidence." The...

Illinois bans practice of lying to minors during police interrogations   Image from Alexander Oganezov / Shutterstock.com Illinois is now the only state in the country that prohibits police from lying to minors during interrogations. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Thursday a measure that bans deceptive tactics, such as knowingly communicating false facts about evidence or promising leniency without authorization, when questioning individuals who are under the age of 18. The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, also states that any oral, written or sign language confession made under these ci...

/ Terrill Swift, who spent 15 years in prison after being coerced into confessing to a crime he did not commit, speaks at a news conference Thursday in favor of a law that bans the deceptive interrogation of minors by law enforcement. Terrill Swift spent 15 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder which DNA evidence later proved he did not commit. On Thursday, he appeared alongside lawmakers and criminal justice reform advocates in support of a bill signed by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker to ban deceptive police interrogation of minors. The measure, Senate Bill 2122, was unanimously app...