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The Reid Technique: Science-Based Interviewing
Feb 06, 2025
See our new Investigtor Tip, The Reid Technique: Science-Based Interviewing, whichbegins as follows:
For over 7 decades, the Reid Technique has employed and has been based on “science-based methodology.”
At the American...
Previous Updates
Japanese research confirms Reid approach
Feb 10, 2015
In the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation we have always espoused a nonjudgmental, neutral and objective demeanor by the investigator during the interview and an empathetic, understanding approach during the interrogation...
Court offers scathing rejection of false confession expert Dr. Alison Redlich
Feb 10, 2015
In People v. Oliver (July 2014) the Supreme Court, Kings County, New York rejected the testimony of false confession expert Alison Redlich. In their opinion the court stated the following:
Toronto Sun Gets It Wrong
Feb 10, 2015
In a recent article entitled, "Peel Regional Police investigative techniques questioned" the author, Sam Pazzano, makes a number of erroneous statements about The Reid Technique, primarily based on the information he received...
Why 'Tell me why you did it' is a failed technique
Feb 10, 2015
Lou Senese, Reid VOP, just published a brief article in PoliceOne.com entitled ìWhy ëTell me why you did ití is a filed technique.
Can a subject's silence be used in trial as an indication of his guilt?
Feb 10, 2015
Earlier this year an article entitled, Silence Is No Longer Golden: How Lawyers Now Advise Suspects in Light of Salinas v. Texas, was published in The Champion (a publication from the National...
Courts affirm interrogation techniques that are often mischaracterized by false confession experts
Feb 10, 2015
Courts affirm interrogation techniques that are often mischaracterized by false confession experts
In our Legal Updates Summer 2014 we have several cases that we wanted to highlight for our audience that...
Compendium: Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations
Feb 10, 2015
On their website the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has published an extensive compendium of the laws and court decisions regarding the electronic recording of custodial interrogations. Here is the article:
Charles Piper, CRT new article: Needles in a paystack: Physician submits $500,000 in false claims
Feb 10, 2015
Mr. Charles Piper, Certified in the Reid Technique, has published an article in Fraud magazine entitled, Needles in a paystack: Physician submits $500,000 in false claims. Here is a link to the...
False Confessions
Jan 29, 2015
False confessions do occur. Although they happen infrequently, they often involve high profile cases. Whenever they occur it is incumbent on all investigators to examine the details of each case in order...
Research indicates a 97.8% accuracy rate at detecting deception
Dec 03, 2014
A recent study published in Human Communication Research by researchers at Korea University, Michigan State University, and Texas State University -- San Marcos found that using active questioning of individuals yielded near-perfect...
Legal Updates Fall 2014
Dec 03, 2014
The Legal Updates Fall 2014 column contains cases which address the following issues: Court allows surreptitious video recording of incriminating statement into evidenceCourt rules that Dr. Shawn Roberson would not be allowed...
Legal Updates Summer 2014
Sep 30, 2014
Legal Updates Summer 2014 The Legal Updates Summer 2014 column contains cases which address the following issues: Investigator's statement that felony murder would receive a lesser sentence than premeditated murder did not...
Not so Fast - the Central Park Jogger case
Aug 14, 2014
As everyone knows the Central Park Jogger case has become a high profile "false confession" case - highlighted by the documentary Ken Burns did about the case.
Not so fast. A...
From Law and Order magazine: The Reid Technique Webinar - The Reid Technique Delivered Right to Your Training Room
Jul 15, 2014
In the June 2014 issue of Law and Order magazine the editorial staff profiles the new online training program developed by John E. Reid and Associates for investigators. As the article states...
The Hunting Of Man: Lies, Damn Lies, And Police Interrogations
Jul 15, 2014
Miller W. Shealy, Jr., Associate Professor of Law, Charleston School of Law, has just published an article entitled, The Hunting Of Man: Lies, Damn Lies, And Police Interrogations, in which he discusses...
US Attorney General issues policy memo regarding recording interrogations
Jun 17, 2014
In a Memorandum regarding "Policy Concerning Electronic Recording of Statements" dated May 12, 214 the US Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, stated the following:
"This policy establishes...
HumInt Collection: A look through noncoercive field questioning and screening of jihadist combatants
Jun 17, 2014
Two of our senior instructors, William Schrieber and Philip Mullenix, co-authored a new article just published in the Marine Corps Gazette entitled, HumInt Collection: A look through noncoercive field questioning and screening...
Legal Updates Spring 2014
Jun 02, 2014
The Legal Updates Spring 2014 column contains cases which address the following issues:Defendant is entitled to discovery of evidence relating to officer's alleged propensity to obtain confessions through coercive conductStandard questions that...
Arguing for Statewide Uniformity in Recording Custodial Interrogations
May 20, 2014
The American Bar Association has recently published an article by Attorney Thomas Sullivan that discusses the need to establish uniform recording guidelines, Arguing for Statewide Uniformity in Recording Custodial Interrogations. The article...
Investigators did not follow suggested guidelines when interrogating mentally deficient individual as detailed in Reid training manual and text, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions
May 19, 2014
In US v. Preston (May 2014) the US Court of Appeals the court stated, "Today we consider the voluntariness of a confession given by Tymond Preston, an intellectually disabled eighteen-year-old. To elicit...