[Excaliber]

It is legal for the police to lie to you during an interogation. Like, "Your buddy has all ready confessed, so we know you are lieing." Maybe your buddy did, maybe not.

I learned this lesson when I was 10 years old. Accused of taking the bottle caps off of coke bottles in a coke machine and drinking the contents with a straw. Cops told me my sister confessed that we BOTH did it (a lie). They also said they had my fingerprints (I'd never been finger printed, but I DID believe them)! They did find the guilty party (neither myself or my sister), but it was a "life lesson" akin to realizing Santa isn't real. Cop's lie, I was stunned, it changed my out look on life overnight.