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Murder Mystery Tech Question

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LizW65:
Thanks for the input.  Basically, the situation is as follows:

-Victim is wealthy, retired, and has many influential friends.  Cops are under a lot of pressure to solve crime quickly.
-Suspect is middle-class private investigator with limited financial resources, a few friends in the police and courts, and a very good lawyer who is also a close friend.
-He has no criminal record and is not a flight risk.
-He had a brief affair with the victim's wife.
-The murder weapon was found in his office.
-He has a temper which occasionally becomes violent.

Some hours after suspect's arrest, medical examiner determines that murder was probably committed by individual of much different physical type (time period is late 1940's, so no DNA or complex forensics to deal with.)  Whaddya think?  Let him out, or lock him up and throw away the key?

meg_evonne:
sure let him out, then they would have him tailed and bug his phone and send MS Duck in a slinky dress to 'interrogate' him. :-) Hey it's the 40s! war time....

Yeratel:
In the 1940s, in New York City, before there were such things as Miranda Warnings, it's likely he would be interrogated with the aid of fists, rubber hose beatings, and sleep deprivation, unless his lawyer could get a judge to sign a writ of habeus corpus before he got a confession forced out of him.

LizW65:
Thanks -- lots to think about here.  ;D

Agravaine:
A person with a few friends on the force or in the Courts isn't going to be interrogated with fists.

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