Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
> 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's the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)? Not just insinuate something like "your partner's in the next room, it's only a matter of time until he talks so you should come clean now", 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've promised, you can't then hold them responsible for relying on that thing.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/promissory_estoppel" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/promissory_estoppel</a>