The Innocence Project, April 28, 2010 New York State leads the nation in violent crimes committed by those who evaded justice when innocent people were wrongfully convicted.
Category Archives: InTheNews
Changes Encouraged to Prevent False Confessions
By Jennifer 8. Lee, “New York Times,” July 3, 2008
Videotape interrogations, confessions
By Kathryn Grant Madigan, “Times Union,” February 25, 2008
True and Untrue Confessions
Editorial, “New York Times,” January 12, 2008
False Confessions by Adults
From ReligiousTolerance.org, Ontario consultants on Religious Tolerance
Untrue Confessions
By Mark Hansen, ABA Journal. No one says that police have brought out the rubber hose, but some of their interrogation techniques are raising questions about why innocents confess to crimes they didn’t commit.
The False Confession
By Alexandra Perina, Psychology Today, March 01, 2003 Why an innocent person will confess guilt. A review of one decade’s worth of murder cases in a single Illinois county found 247 instances in which the defendants’ self-incriminating statements were thrown out by the court or found by a jury to be insufficiently convincing for conviction.
Anatomy of a False Confession
By Jack Kresnak, Free Press Staff Writer, February 27, 2001 Some Question Cops’ Methods When Grilling Youth
Police interrogations: AP-LS issues landmark white paper
Blog “In the News: Forensic Psychology, Criminology, and Psychology-Law,” March 14, 2010
Confession Prompted by Lies, Prisoner Fights for Freedom
By Richard C. Paddock, “AOL News,” April 14, 2010