As I am still transitioning to Iowa State University, this month’s entry is brought to you by another guest contributor. Talley Bettens is a Ph.D. student in George Mason University’s Criminology, Law ...
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False confessions and mistaken witness identification often play a decisive role in defendants being wrongly convicted. In this edition of his Civil Rights Litigation column, Ilann M. Maazel writes ...
What is it with false confession? A new study in Psychological Science indicates to what extent confessions may influence eyewitness testimony. An astonishing 60 percent of volunteers who had ...
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A famed police interrogation technique led to infamous false confessions in Nebraska. We still use it.
A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.
While a federal magistrate has left the door open for Brendan Dassey to be re-tried in the death of Teresa Halbach, the loss of his confession would pose a monumental challenge for prosecutors, legal ...
If a majority of the Supreme Court justices eventually strike down the death penalty as unconstitutional, Henry Lee McCollum may be an important reason why. Perhaps that will provide some small ...
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