PRINTER'S NO. 1224
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1156
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY SCOTT, SANCHEZ, PROBST, KINSEY, KHAN, N. NELSON,
WARREN, KRAJEWSKI, GREEN AND KINKEAD, MAY 18, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 18, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of evidence,
providing for deceptive interrogation practices.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 6113. Deceptive interrogation practices.
(a) Inadmissibility of evidence.--Any oral, written or sign
language confession or statement which is made as a result of a
custodial interrogation conducted by a law enforcement officer
at a place of detention shall be presumed inadmissible as
evidence in a criminal proceeding against a defendant who made
the confession or statement if, during the custodial
interrogation, the law enforcement officer knowingly engaged in
deception in obtaining the confession or statement.
(b) Rebutting inadmissibility.--
(1) The presumption of inadmissibility of a confession
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