Court to Consider If Parents Should Be at Interrogations

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Court to consider if parents should be at interrogations

It was just after 6 a.m. on a March morning in 2001 when Jerrell, a 14-year-old from Milwaukee, was taken from his parents' home by police for questioning about an armed robbery.

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Court to Consider If Parents Should Be at Interrogations

At the station, Jerrell sat handcuffed to a wall until 9 a.m., when detectives began what turned into a nearly six-hour interrogation. During the questioning, court records show, the teen made numerous requests to call his parents, but all were denied.

In the end, Jerrell signed what he later sai...

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