The attached document, "What False Confession Experts, Defense Attorneys and Academicians Say About the Reid Technique and Our Responses," includes the following topics:

• The Purpose of an Interrogation
• "Guilt Presumptive" Process
• How Social Psychologists Describe the Interrogation Process
• The Use of Minimization Techniques
• Pragmatic Implication
• The Three Errors that Lead to False Confessions
  • The Reid Core Principles

• Lying to a Suspect About Evidence
• Modifying Techniques When Questioning Juveniles and Individuals with Mental or Psychological Disabilities
• Courts and Attorneys Use Reid as the Benchmark for Proper Procedures, as do the Social Psychologists
• Causes of False Confessions
• Comments from the Courts
• Best Practices
• Behavior Symptom Analysis
• Research Supporting the Reid Technique
• How Reporters Oftentimes Present Erroneous Descriptions of the Reid Technique