Litigating Coerced Confessions: Illinois’ “Deception Ban”
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| Friday, November 7, 2025 |
| 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
| Redbird CD |
Overview
Lauren Gottesman, Senior Staff Attorney, Innocence Project
Details
In part two, we will take a deep dive into Illinois’s “deception ban,” which applies a presumption of inadmissibility to any custodial statements elicited from a child under age 18 or a “person with a severe or profound intellectual disability” during an interrogation in which an “officer knowingly engages in deception.” 705 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 405/5-401.6. The training will cover, among other things, how to urge courts to expansively interpret the definition of “deception” and how to respond to the State’s opposition to suppression under the new statute.
Speaker
Lauren Goettesman
Senior Staff Attorney
Innocence Project
Illinois’ “Deception Ban”
Biography
Lauren Gottesman is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project’s Strategic Litigation Department, where she focuses primarily on issues involving police interrogation and coerced, false confessions. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, Lauren was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society’s Manhattan Criminal Defense Practice. During her last year at the Legal Aid Society, Lauren worked in their Decarceration Project, where she provided consultation, training, and direct advocacy regarding pre-trial detention issues. Before her work at the Legal Aid Society, Lauren clerked for two years for the Honorable James L. Dennis on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Louisiana.
