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4 days ago · The cause of his false confession, Perez claimed in a lawsuit that he recently settled with the city for $900,000, was a coercive interrogation by detectives that lasted more than 17 hours. Detectives lied to Perez, telling him they had his father’s dead body and hard evidence that Perez had killed him. They said there was blood all over the ...
2 days ago · “It is empirical fact that most false confessions contain accurate details not yet known to the public and ‘false-fed facts’ that are consistent with the police theory of the crime, but that ...
5 days ago · The Psychology of False Confessions. False confessions can occur due to various psychological factors such as coercion, suggestibility, or a desire for leniency, highlighting the importance of accurate and ethical interrogation techniques in the criminal justice system.
4 days ago · Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spen...
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6 days ago · The Innocence Project says a quarter of wrongful convictions in the United States stem from false confessions, and a recent study by the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge...
4 days ago · You don’t need magic to get to the truth; you just need a little behavioral psychology. I want to teach you a few truth-telling tools you can use to encourage someone to tell the truth, confess, or divulge information. Watch our video to learn how to get someone to confess:
4 days ago · Section 82 (1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 defines a confession as: Any statement wholly or partly averse to the person who made it; whether made to a person in authority or not; Whether made in words or not. What is the law in relation to seeking to exclude confessions?
