State of Connecticut v. Julian J. Lockhart — Palmer, J., Concurring

Summary

The concurrence would have exercised the court’s supervisory authority to require electronic audio-video recording of police-station interrogations whenever reasonably feasible. It reasons that recording would improve evaluation of voluntariness and reliability, reduce false-confession risks, protect both suspects and police, and impose minimal costs without impairing law enforcement. The concurrence nevertheless agrees with affirmance because the failure to record this defendant’s interrogation was harmless in light of overwhelming evidence of guilt, including two eyewitnesses.