The Friend on the Force

After a former boxer beat him in a bar dispute, a 25-year-old man got a gun and shot the boxer dead. Later he surrendered to police. Officers questioned him through the night for about eight hours, in turns, and refused his request to contact his lawyer. They had his childhood friend, a new police officer, falsely tell him his phone call had put the friend's job and family at risk. After four such pleas, he confessed. The law bars confessions where the will was overborne.