Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

Hello,

I was charged with burglary and went to county jail with a 100,000.00 dollar bail. While in county jail my parents said that they would bail me out if I confessed to them over the phone that I did do the burglury. Wanthing to get out of jail I did confess to them. I later found out at the preliminary hearing that when I confessed to my parents the detective was at my house and heard me confess because my parents had me on speaker phone.

I was wondering if the DA would be able to use that as evidence because I only confessed to my parents so they would bail me out. Is there anyway that I could get the confession thrown out?


Asked on 3/12/11, 9:13 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles A. Pascal, Jr. Law Office of Charles A. Pascal, Jr.

If it can be shown that your parents were acting at the direction of the police, and thus were actually agents of the state, the confession may be suppressed since you weren't read your rights at the beginning of the conversation. If

If its not suppressed, you could present your parents' bribe of bail in exchange for confession to a jury to attack the believability of the confession

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Answered on 3/13/11, 12:03 pm


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