U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal
Jun. 12, 2018
Innocent people do confess
The Supreme Court should hear the case of Brendan Dassey, the intellectually disabled youth whose confession was obtained through the use of suggestive interrogation techniques and later shown to the world on the hit Netflix show “Making a Murderer.”
Donald H. Heller
Donald Heller LawEmail: Dheller@donaldhellerlaw.com
Donald is a criminal trial lawyer in Sacramento.
I am a former assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of California and a former assistant district attorney for New York County, New York and one of more than 60 amici curiae of current and former state and federal prosecutors who submitted a brief urging the Supreme Court to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari in Dassey v. Dittman, 17-1172, filed February 22, 2018.
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