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He is on the board of the Innocence Project and encouraged the Virginia governor to pardon the Four. [5] [34] A documentary of the Norfolk Four events was featured as The Confessions (2010) on Frontline. It was investigated and produced by Ofra Bikel. This aired on PBS on November 9, 2010. It is available to stream on the website, with ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit. Although such confessions seem counterintuitive, they can be made voluntarily, perhaps to protect a third party, or induced through coercive interrogation techniques.
Even if you were tricked into a confession, and it’s false, it can be used. As Saul Kassin’s “Duped” illustrates, the consequences can be life-changing. Kassin’s book, the full title ...
The possibility that innocent people would admit to a crime they did not commit seems unlikely - and yet this occurs so often, the Innocence Project found false confessions contribute to approximately 25% of wrongful convictions in murder and rape cases. [25] Certain suspects are more vulnerable to making a false confession under police pressure.
The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA Age: Steven A. Drizin & Richard A. Leo (2008) (translated into Japanese and published as a book and amicus brief which was filed by the Center on Wrongful Convictions before the Supreme Court of Japan) (translated by Kazuko Ito)(Japan UNI Agency, Tokyo, 2008). [35]
Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence ...
Hughes, now 67, kept Cashwell's confession secret because of attorney-client privilege until after Cashwell died by suicide in prison in 2002. Hughes signed an affidavit for Hunt's attorneys in 2004.