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Canadian Law May Column - The Oickle Derivatives - Part 3
May 01, 2006
Recommendations for Post 9/11 Border Interrogations ñ R. v. Panton (2005)
The events of September 11, 2001, changed border security. The post-9/11 era coincides with the post-Oickle era. An Ontario Superior...
Distinguishing Between True and False Confessions
Apr 01, 2006
One of the Chapters in our book, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, is entitled "Distinguishing Between True and False Confessions". In an effort to make this information available to all interested parties we...
Canadian Law April Column - The Oickle Derivatives - Part 1
Apr 01, 2006
The full effect of the Supreme Court of Canada transformational decisions in R. v. Oickle (2000)[1] will not be realized for several more years. However, their influence on interrogation practices, since 200...
Research Suggests False Confessions are Extremely Rare
Mar 10, 2006
In a recent publication (2005) one author reported the following: "However, using national estimates of interrogations, arrests, convictions, and error rates of wrongful convictions resulting from false confessions range from a low...