NYSACDL joins the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York State Defenders Association and others as amici challenging the Queens District Attorney’s Office practice of conducting pre-arraignment interviews of arrestees.  These consolidated cases,People v. Eugene Polhill, Collin Lloyd-Douglas, and Jermaine Dunbar are before the New York Appellate Division, Second Department seeking not only suppression of statements obtained as a result of these pre-arraignment interrogations but more broadly, a ruling curtailing the program as unconstitutional and as unethical in violation of the Disciplinary Rules.

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