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Defense attorney: Arson suspect's confession coerced

An attorney for the teen charged in the arson deaths of a mother and three of her children argued Tuesday that police coerced a false confession out of the defendant during a 10-hour interrogation.

Caleb Lacey, the Lawrence-Cedarhurst probationary volunteer firefighter who authorities say set the Feb. 19 blaze because he wanted to be a heroic rescuer, confessed Friday only after detectives...

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