Lowery's attorneys contend that officers who interrogated him denied his repeated requests for an attorney, provided him details of the rape and then coerced him into confessing to the crime.I guess I just think this points out that a lot of what some people perceive as "technicalities" are not technicalities, but fundamental protections. The right to counsel helps to prevent false confessions and, in turn, wrongful convictions.
Here is a follow-up article in the Topeka Capital-Journal after the defendants have accepted the settlement.
Here is another article reporting on attorney Barry Clark and his decade-long effort to exonerate Mr. Lowery.
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