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In the mid 2000, LAPD arrested a young man Juan Catalan after a little girl was shot dead. Catalan was sentenced to death after a witness stated that he looked like the killer. Catalan turned out to be innocent; it was a television show (Curb Your Enthusiasm) which showed him seated at a baseball game, thus exonerating him. A documentary was ...
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.
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.
In its early use, the word naïve meant "natural or innocent", and did not connote ineptitude. As a French adjective , it is spelled naïve , for feminine nouns, and naïf , for masculine nouns. As a French noun, it is spelled naïveté .
France's newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, says his famous handshake with Trump was a deliberate act to convey a symbolic "moment of truth."
Joey Graziadei, Maria Georgas. Disney/John Fleenor The Bachelor’s Maria Georgas is taking responsibility for her part in this season’s cast drama. “I just want to say, I’m not innocent in ...
The whataboutery move seems to rest on the false assumption that wrongdoing is mitigated if others have done something similar, and the feeling that accusers need to be innocent of the crime of which they are accusing others. 'You think I'm doing something terrible, so look around you at all the others doing much the same as me.
Presumed Innocent is inspired by Scott Turow’s novel and the 1990 film of the same name. For those who aren’t familiar, Rusty is accused of murdering his colleague Carolyn Polhemus. The clean ...