Protect the Innocent and Identify the Guilty

Jul 01, 2026

Protect the Innocent and Identify the Guilty………

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Modifying Techniques When Questioning Juveniles and Individuals with Mental or Psychological Disabilities

Jun 28, 2019

In our training program we highlight the importance on exercising caution when questioning a juvenile or mentally impaired person. As an example see pages 19-21 in this article, Clarifying Misrepresentations About Law...

If they had followed the core principles of the Reid Technique these false confessions would not have occurred

Jun 27, 2019

In an article published in Science, titled, "This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn't commit," Professor Saul Kassin, a psychologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice...

Netflix Defames Reid

Jun 19, 2019

In the Netflix 4 part series "When They See Us," the creators attempt to re-create the story of the Central Park Jogger case, in which 5 juveniles were alleged to have...

Legal Updates Winter 2019

Jun 01, 2019

The Legal Updates Winter 2019 column contains cases which address the following issues: Court upholds minimization techniques and suggesting justifications for the crimeCourt rejects defendant's claim that his confession should have been...

Canadian Reporters Still Can't Get it Right

Mar 22, 2019

In two recent articles Canadian reporters continue to misrepresent/misunderstand the Reid Technique. Here are the two letter we wrote to the reporters attempting to clarify the issues:

Dear Ms. Jerome,

An example of how Dr. Richard Leo testifies about the interrogation process

Feb 13, 2019

In the case US v. Hyatt (January 2019) the US District Court, E.D. California, included the following description of the testimony of Dr. Richard Leo.

"Leo is a professor of law...

Court upholds investigators using minimization techniques and suggesting justifications for the crime

Feb 06, 2019

In Gomez v. California (January 2019) the US District Court, E.D. California, upheld the lower court's decision to admit the incriminating statements made by the defendant who was convicted of twelve...

An Example of what Dr. Richard Leo says when he testifies on the issue of false confessions

Jan 31, 2019

In People v. Lucero (January 2019) the court summarized the testimony of Dr. Richard Leo on the issue of false confessions as follows:

Richard Leo, a professor of law and...

Reid and Associates featured in the series Criminal Confessions on the OXYGEN channel

Dec 12, 2018

On Saturday, December 8, 2018 John E. Reid and Associates was featured in the series, Criminal Confessions, on the Oxygen channel. The case is described on the Oxygen blog page...

Testifying in Court

Dec 04, 2018

In their Winter 2018 publication, Point of View, the Alameda County District Attorney's office, (Nancy E. O'Mally, District Attorney) has published an article entitled, Testifying in Court, which discusses the testimony guidelines...

Indiana Supreme Court finds that assistant principal questioning a student about criminal mischief was not acting as an agent of the police

Nov 27, 2018

In D.Z. v. State (June 2018) the Supreme Court of Indiana found that in a criminal mischief and harassment case when the assistant high school principal questioned the juvenile suspect (student)...

Legal Updates Fall 2018

Nov 20, 2018

The Legal Updates Fall 2018 column contains cases which address the following issues:
Confession was suppressed when request to stop answering questions was ignored (value of the video in supporting defendant�s...

References to John E. Reid and Associates in Making a Murder Part 2

Nov 05, 2018

In the Netflix series, Making a Murder Part 2, the interrogation of Brendan Dassey is discussed by Attorney Steve Drizen and Attorney Lauara Nirider during the first 15 minutes of Episode...

Factors to consider in the evaluation of the voluntariness of a confession

Nov 01, 2018

In Keyser v. Smith (Sept. 2018) the US District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania, articulated many of the factors that must be considered in evaluating the voluntariness of a confession:
The duration and means...

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office: Interrogation

Oct 11, 2018

The Alameda County District Attorney�s Office has prepared and published an excellent article entitled, Interrogation, which examines numerous interrogation issues, including when pressure becomes coercion, looking at such elements as location of...

Legal Updates Summer 2018

Aug 16, 2018

The Legal Updates Summer 2018 column contains cases which address the following issues
Interrogation 5 hours after initial advisement of rights was �reasonably contemporaneous� with the initial waiverValue...

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Jul 18, 2018

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References to the Reid Technique in the world of literature

Jul 09, 2018

In a murder mystery novel by Scott Pratt, entitled "Good Faith" (2018) the author makes the following reference to the Reid Technique:

Page 148:

"He thought briefly about how...

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Jul 03, 2018

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One of our senior instructors, Attorney Philip Mullenix, has just published an excellent article in the Marine Corps Gazette entitled, "On Leadership: Core leadership traits."

Jun 27, 2018

Here are the opening paragraphs of the article:
It's a fact that each of you possess skills in your underlying MOS and as a leader in the Marine Corps. Because...