Clifton Terrell Jr.'s story may serve as a lesson to murder suspects everywhere: Resist the urge to call your mother. When he was tried in San Francisco Superior Court for killing the son of a state senator, the trial court excluded Terrell's confession to police. But the court allowed the prosecution to use a secretly recorded phone call Terrell made to relatives right after his interrogators left the room. "He tried to grab the gun, and I pulled away and it went off," he told his mother.
August 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Clifton Terrell Jr.’s story may serve as a lesson to murder suspects everywhere: Resist the urge to call your momma.
When he was tried in San Francisco Superior Court for murdering the son of a state senator, the trial court excluded Terrell’s confession to police. But the court allowed the prosecution to use a secretly recorded phone call Terrell made to his mother and three other relatives right after his interrogators left the room.
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