Oftentimes the defense will present a "false confession expert” to testify that the investigator obtained a coerced and/or false confession. We have published a number of articles describing the type of statements that the “experts” make; the various factors that they consider in their assessment; and the type of reports that they issue.
Here are several links to those articles - please share them with your colleagues and prosecutors.

Updated January 16, 2025:

• Preparing to Testify in Confession Cases (Parts One and Two)

• Common Erroneous and False Statements About the Reid Technique
• Richard Leo's Boilerplate Statement Regarding Police Interrogation Practices
  
• Is offering a suspect a moral or psychological excuse for committing the crime the same as offering them a promise of leniency if they confess?
• The Disingenuous Testimony from Social Psychologists About the Reid Technique
• A General Outline of Richard Leo's Testimony on False Confession Issues and Reid's Responses
• What Do False Confession Experts Say in Their Reports?
• What False Confession Experts Say About the Reid Technique and Our Responses
• Clarifying Misrepresentations About Interrogation Techniques (updated May 2023)
• The Truth About the Research Social Psychologists Use as the Basis for Testimony Regarding False and/or Coerced Confessions
• Principles of Practice: How to Conduct Proper Investigative Interviews and Interrogations
• False Confessions: The Issues to be Considered
• What Questions Should be Asked to Determine the Voluntariness and Validity of a Subject’s Confession?
• Why the Reid Technique is so Successful

and finally, since these “false confession experts” oftentimes misrepresent the elements of the Reid Technique here are two articles that detail the Reid Technique interview and interrogation process.

• A Description of The Reid Technique
• Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations - Reid Comments
• The Reid Behavior Analysis Interview: Part 1: Do the Case Facts and Evidence Support the Subject's Story? Part 2: The Interview Structure and the Value of Behavior Symptom Analysis

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Joseph P.Buckley

President