A city statement said police detectives had reason to believe Thomas Perez Jr. had killed his father and that they did not engage in unlawful activity.
Thomas Perez Jr. is interviewed by police in the killing his father — who had been reported missing but was later found alive. In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to killing his father.posted Wednesday, May 29, said, “the City of Fontana vigorously denies that violated any state or federal law during the investigation.
According to court documents, detectives told Perez that they had found his father’s body and it wore a toe tag at the morgue. They said they had evidence he was the killer and initially withheld his medication for anxiety, depression, high blood pressure and asthma. “The Fontana case is an extreme one, but it fundamentally begins with a mistaken belief about the use of deception in the interview room,” said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, a leading reformer in police interrogation. “While it is legally acceptable for police to lie to suspects they are questioning, they can end up with very bad results and it’s simply not the most effective way to interview people.
The statement said the city would never have agreed to a settlement if Perez had demanded an admission of wrongdoing. However, the statement doesn’t identify those enhancements and police did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
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