Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
&gt; After hours of interrogation, police told one of the teenagers, Terrill Swift, that if he just confessed to being at the scene he could go home — so he did.<p>What&#x27;s the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)? Not just insinuate something like &quot;your partner&#x27;s in the next room, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until he talks so you should come clean now&quot;, but blatantly lie and then be able to rely on the result of that in court?<p>It kinda feels a <i>little</i> like the common law doctrine of Promissary Estoppel [0] where if someone relies on something you&#x27;ve promised, you can&#x27;t then hold them responsible for relying on that thing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel</a>