Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Kayak Killer (Angelika Graswald) | Pleading Guilty While Maintaining Innocence" video.

Police are allowed to lie to you, short of explicitly promising a particular legal outcome in exchange for a confession. But the Good Cop Bad Cop game, calling interrogation "therapy," invoking God, etc., all is permitted. I wish people knew. :/
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The cops did the job they were hired to do: they protected the insurance companies.
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He has stated that he believed a convicted person was in fact guilty LOTS of times. The average person still thinks it is fine to submit to custodial interrogation "because they have nothing to hide." Sheer folly. There is a great video on that, with a law professor and a police officer sharing the podium. Look it up.
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@billyoung5826 So you disagree with him on particular cases. Do you make the distinction between factual guilt and legal guilt? Considering all the factually innocent people who have been in prison for decades or on death row, I support innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I suggest you watch the Frontline documentary The Confessions. If they could do this to sailors serving the country, they could do it to anyone.
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@billyoung5826 Also, if you didn't read actual court transcripts, it is very unlikely you know who is clearly guilty. The press has been misrepresenting sensational cases for as long as I can remember -- easily 30 years. It's not new, and I have no idea why. By the same token, you have every right to be skeptical of Dr. Grande, too, the only difference being that if there is real doubt, the verdict is supposed to be not guilty.
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Police are NEVER supposed to goad a person into a false confession, especially not in a suspected homicide. They don't get to do it once in a while on the theory that nobody is perfect. You don't get to run over a toddler once in a while, or drive on the sidewalk twice per decade -- do you? Some people still like the Bill of Rights.
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