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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.
Articles relating to false confessions, admissions of guilt for crimes 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.
Several risk factors were present in this case, including a history of mental illness, his mental state during the interrogation, and multiple interrogation techniques that are known to increase the likelihood of a false confession. The jury was also led to believe that Rivera failed a polygraph test. The defense was precluded from telling the ...
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.
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 ...
Both later recanted and said their confessions had been coerced. McCloud was convicted of murder in 1996 and sentenced to 25 years to life. He was released in January 2023.
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]
The quintet — who were ages 14 to 16 at the time of the attack and now call themselves the “Exonerated Five” — have said they were coerced into making false confessions by the police. They ...