Litigating Suppression in Confession Cases

This presentation focuses on how to challenge the admissibility of your client's statements to police.  It will cover the techniques used by police to interrogate suspects, how police attempt to undermine Miranda,  how to challenge a statement as involuntary and other legal challenges to the admissibility of a confession.   There will be a discussion of the types of psychological testing and expert witnesses which can be called as well as what chapters for cross examination are most effective to show that police did not comply with the dictates of Miranda or used psychologically coercive techniques to extract a confession from your client.

 

Deja Vishny has practiced criminal defense for 33 years with the Wisconsin Office of the State Public Defender. She heads the Homicide Practice Group at the Milwaukee Trial Office and is also a training coordinator for that agency. She studied police interrogation and attended the Reid school of Interrogation course in 2004, is a nationally known lecturer on the subject of defending false confession cases, and published articles in The Champion and The Wisconsin Defender on the subject. She is a faculty member at the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia, and an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Marquette University Law School and has taught at seminars on trial and motion practice throughout the United States and in India. She served two terms on the Board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a Vice Chair of CLE for that organization and served several terms on the Board of the Wisconsin State Bar Criminal Law Section. She is currently writing a book on litigating suppression motions due to be published in 2013 by the James Publishing Company.