Hennepin County Attorney’s Office introducing internal policy to reduce risk of false confessions, protect children’s constitutional rights

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Hennepin County Attorney’s Office introducing internal policy to reduce risk of false confessions, protect children’s constitutional rights

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced a new internal policy that...

Interrogators should exercise special precautions when interviewing juveniles or individuals with mental or psychological impairments

Sep 29, 2012

Every interrogator must exercise extreme caution and care when interviewing or interrogating a juvenile or a person who is mentally or psychologically impaired. Certainly these individuals can and do commit very serious...

Another example of how false confession experts misrepresent the Reid Technique - Richard Leo and Deborah Davis

Sep 29, 2012

In an article published earlier this year, The Problem of Interrogation-Induced False Confession: Sources of Failure in Prevention and Detection, the authors, Dr. Richard Leo and Deborah Davis, continue the trend of...

Without a doubt, the 3 days I spent attending a Reid seminar were so instrumental in conducting proper and successful investigations.

Sep 29, 2012

I was an Internal Affairs Special Agent for the Justice Department. I attended a 13 week criminal investigator training course at FLETC in Brunswick, Georgia, and the training was quite good. However...

CBC story on The Reid Technique

Sep 29, 2012

The Canadian Broadcasting Company recently did an 18 minute report on interrogation practices - specifically the Reid Technique - called Truth, Lies and Confessions. The report is very negative about the Reid...

Canadian Judge finds interrogation process to be 'oppressive' - mislabels as The Reid Technique

Sep 20, 2012

Earlier this month a lower court judge in Alberta, Canada in the case R. v. Chapple, found that a confession obtained after an 8 hour interrogation was inadmissible because the interrogation process...

New Review of Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, Fifth Edition

Aug 02, 2012

The recently published Fifth Edition of Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, by the late Fred E. Inbau, the late John E. Reid, Joseph P. Buckley, and Brian C. Jayne, was reviewed for the...

Legal Updates Summer 2012

Aug 01, 2012

In our Legal Updates Summer 2012 column we feature cases that address the following issues: "I've given you what I'm gonna give you." "[I] "ain't saying nothing no more" Do these statements...

New Canadian legal column available for Reid Institute members

Jul 01, 2012

Attack on Reid technique fails. Failed attempt to prove a false confession.

R. v. Pearce (2012) MBQB[1]

By Gino Arcaro M.Ed., B.Sc.



I. Introduction

Picture this...

Expert witness testifies that the frequency of false confessions is one hundredth of one percent.

May 30, 2012

In the murder trial of Adrian Thomas in Troy, New York, the prosecution's expert witness at the Frye hearing, Professor Paul Cassell, conclusively opined thataccording to FBI figures, there are 900,000 arrests...

84% of surveyed participants rate the Reid seminar better than any other training that they received on interview and interrogation techniques

May 30, 2012

84% of surveyed participants rate the Reid seminar better than any other training that they received on interview and interrogation techniques

In April 2012 we included the following survey question in...

Example of how false confession experts misrepresent the Reid Technique - Dr. Solomon Fulero

May 14, 2012

In the case State v. Wright (Jan. 2012) Dr. Solomon Fulero, Professor of Psychology at Sinclair College, offered testimony about the Reid Technique - his testimony (quoted below) provides a perfect example...

Miranda: Admissibility of Expert Testimony on False Confessions; Failure of Expert To Offer Case and Fact-Specific Basis for His Expert Testimony; Exclusion of Pro-Offered Expert Testimony; Dr. Ofshe <i>People v. Bedessie</i>, No. 46 (N.Y. Court of

May 06, 2012

Attorney James Manak writes a monthly legal column for our Reid Institute Members - the heading above is the focus of his April 2012 column - because it deals with how the...

Three new articles on Canadian cases posted on the Reid Institute Members page

May 01, 2012

We have posted three new articles by Gino Arcaro discussing Canadian interrogation cases on our Reid Institute Members What's New page:"Confession at gunpoint: The chain of events affecting admissibility""The balance of power...

New Canadian Column

May 01, 2012

Offer of help may jeopardize confession admissibility

R. v. Gilbertson (2012) BCSC[1] 20-04-12


Gino Arcaro M.Ed., B.Sc.

Part I - Editorial

As business owner, I find this...

Criminal Interrogation and Confessions 5th edition now available as an e-book. Save 40%.

Apr 30, 2012

The publisher of Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, 5th edition, has now made the leading text in the field of interviewing and interrogation available as an e-book for the remarkable price of $74.9...

Legal Updates Spring 2012

Apr 18, 2012

In our Legal Updates Spring 2012 column we feature cases that address the following issues:Defendant does not have to actually speak to invoke the right to remain silentStatement to suspect that he...

NY's top court rejects appeal of confession (Rejects Dr.Ofshe testimony of false confessions)

Apr 02, 2012

By MICHAEL VIRTANEN
Associated press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court on Thursday upheld the child rape conviction of a Queens woman who said her confession was coerced by...

Confession at gunpoint: The chain of events affecting admissibility.

Apr 01, 2012

By Gino Arcaro M.Ed., B.Sc.

I. Reality

The world of frontline policing will not always guarantee peaceful conditions to question a suspect. During life-and-death emergencies, the police will need to...

Misrepresentations made about the Reid Technique - the correct information

Mar 11, 2012

Over the years a number of misrepresentations and statements containing misinformation have been made about The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation by "false confession experts," academicians and the media. We have...

New Canadian column for Reid Institute Members: The balance of power: close the "Sophistication Gap."

Mar 01, 2012

by Gino Arcaro M.Ed., B.Sc.

R. v. Tshitenge Masuku (2011)

Experience versus inexperience. The balance of power with respect to an interrogator and a suspect has become one of...