Off-tape conversations were used to hide illegal activity by detectives

During the police interrogations of Kimberly Renee Poole the detectives held many off-tape conversations. Saul Kassin in his analysis also noted this:

It is abundantly clear that off-tape conversations were held that were not tape recorded (between 6/9 and 6/12/98 and between 6/12 and 6/13/98), which impairs our ability to know all that was said and done to her. 

The detectives conveniently turned off the tape recorder in order to hide very serious legal rights violations. This is especially true during the June 13th interrogation during which the detectives assert she ‘confessed’. The detectives knew that if at any point she asked for an attorney they had to stop. So to prevent this from happening they told her, off-tape, they spoke with her attorney and got permission to question her without his presence. (The night before her attorney left the country for either business or pleasure and would not return until the following week. The detectives also knew her attorney was unavailable the night of June 13th.) This illegal deception by the detectives effectively prevented her from asking for an attorney to be present at any time during that very brutal police interrogation. When the detectives lie to prevent her from exercising a legal right in order to have free reign to brutally coerce her into compliance, that is police corruption on a level worthy of national attention, a serious legal rights violation.