Bill would require police to tape interviews

In his decades as a defense lawyer, T. Joseph Touhey has had more than a few clients go ballistic when they hear in court what they supposedly said a few months earlier in a police interview room.

"I have had more people come to me and say, 'This is not what I said,' " Mr. Touhey said. "It's not one police department. It's all of them."

Prosecutors, who say such complaints are generally revisionist history by criminals facing the consequences of what they admitted, often have to face drawn-out pretrial hearings where defense attorneys accuse police of coercing statements and try to get the confessions barred from...