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Supreme Court Case: Illinois V. Perkins
What is the difference between lawful trickery and unlawful coercion according to the 1990 Supreme Court decision in Illinois v. Perkins?
The case in brief involved a murder investigation (Stephenson murder) in November 1984, located in East St. Louis, Illinois. The investigation went unsolved until 1986, when an inmate at the Graham Correctional Facility, told officials he had learn information related to the homicide from a fellow inmate, Lloyd Perkins. The inmate detailed certain information related to the investigation that he had received directly from Perkins and the authorities deemed the information credible. Law enforcement traced Perkins location to a jail in Montgomery County, Illinois where he was being held on unrelated charges
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