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Austin Attorney: 'We Were Secretly Recorded at Police HQ'

Tony Plohetski writes in The Austin American-Statesman:

Defense attorney Kevin Boyd said he was taped while talking at the Police Department to a juvenile suspect in the Sept. 18 stabbing death of a man in North Austin. Boyd said his client went to police headquarters shortly after the slaying to surrender.

Boyd said he asked homicide detectives for permission to speak privately with the 14-year-old and was led to an interview room. Boyd said detectives told him that he would not be recorded.

During the conversation, Boyd said, the 14-year-old told him details about the incident.

"It was pretty sensitive stuff," Boyd said. "We wouldn't have even had the conversation had there not been an expectation of privacy."

posted by Fergie @ 2/24/2006 09:26:00 PM