Why this police interrogation crossed the line. A collapsed murder case puts Canadian police interview techniques under scrutiny

Why this police interrogation crossed the line. A collapsed murder case puts Canadian police interview techniques under scrutiny

In a recent ruling the Court of Appeal overturned the first-degree murder conviction of Justine Ordonio, accused in the 2015 stabbing death of a Mississauga woman, ruling that statements solicited from Ordonio using the Reid method were not voluntary.

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A murder suspect interrogated for nearly 13 hours, while falling in and out of sleep, confined to a cold room, not given food until six hours after his arrest, and subjected to aggressive police questioning about his suspected involvement in the brutal stabbing of a businesswoman in a Mississauga parking lot. That scenario might sound like a scene from a television crime thriller, where fictional detectives confront and accuse a suspect until th…