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A man convicted of killing a six-year-old child is getting a new trial after Michigan’s appeals court ruled key confession evidence was tainted by improper interrogation tactics. The court found Hunter Locke-Hughes wasn’t read his Miranda rights during a coercive session where officers used emotional manipulation and leading questions to pressure him into confessing. While circumstantial evidence supported a lesser manslaughter charge, the court deemed the confession essential for the more serious first-degree child abuse conviction — and without it, the jury might have acquitted him. Locke-Hughes, who was dating the child’s mother and claimed he tried to save the child, now faces a retrial for the top charge, while the manslaughter conviction stands. The case underscores how critical procedural fairness is — even when guilt seems clear, justice demands due process.

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