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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...
Study of False Confession Cases Confirms Reid Position
Mar 01, 2006
False confessions are a rare phenomena, but they have occurred. One of the interrogation techniques that the United States Supreme Court has sanctioned is the verbal misrepresentation of evidence to a suspect...