John E. Reid and Associates files lawsuit against James L. Trainum

Jan 20, 2025

John Reid and Associates Files a Defamation Lawsuit:

On December 18, 2024, John Reid and Associates, Inc. (“Reid”) filed a civil lawsuit for money damages against James L. Trainum in the Superior...

"Solving Crimes in Deceptive Ways: Should Police Lie to Suspects to Prove Murder?” Reid Response

Jan 06, 2025

A recent article entitled, "Solving Crimes in Deceptive Ways: Should Police Lie to Suspects to Prove Murder?” by Clarence Walker was published Jan2, 2025 online at NewsBlaze

Here is our response (which...

Correcting the Record

Dec 30, 2024

On December 23, 2024, the Los Angeles Times published a story entitled “Cops lie to suspects during interrogations. Should detectives stick to the truth?”

The article describes a case in which a...

Information For Attorneys and Law Enforcement Officers regarding the Reid Technique and What False Confession Experts Say During Their Testimony and in Their Reports

Sep 10, 2024

The following are Investigator Tips that we have posted on our website in recent years that will provide helpful information to Law Enforcement Officers and Attorneys who deal with the issues of...

Canada Judge Gets It Terribly Wrong

Jul 26, 2024

In a 2012 article that was recently re-published, the author referenced the Canadian judge’s decision in the Christa Lynn Chapple case as an example of the Court ruling that the Reid Technique...

Correcting the record - Canadian Broadcasting Company story

May 29, 2024

On May 26, 2024, the Canadian Broadcasting News (CBC) posted an online story written by Caitlyn Gowriluk entitled, Admitted Winnipeg serial killer's lawyers tried to get confession thrown out before trial

From...

Responding to a False Confession Expert in Your Case

Apr 09, 2024

Oftentimes the defense will present a "false confession expert” to testify that the investigator obtained a coerced and/or false confession. We have published a number of articles describing the type of statements...

Professor David Wilson Misses the Boat

Jan 24, 2024

In the January 24, 204 issue of DailyMail.com, Professor David Wilson is quoted as saying that:

Candidate for Juris Doctor Significantly Misrepresents the Reid Technique

Nov 29, 2023

A Paper entitled, Coming to PEACE with Police Interrogations: Abandoning the Reid Technique and Adopting the PEACE Method, that was written by Delia Gavin, Candidate for Juris Doctor 2021; Loyola University New...

You Would Think Legal Researchers Would Be Better

Oct 20, 2023

You Would Think Legal Researchers Would Be Better

In the online publication, Legal Reader, published on October 18, 2023, the “staff” wrote an article entitled “The Psychology of Criminal Confessions: Understanding False...

Incredibly Ill-informed And Erroneous Statements About The Reid Technique

Oct 05, 2023

In the September 29, 2023 issue of the online publication, "Wonkette" (self described as "filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!") the author of the article, "Another Innocent Man Freed...

Someone Gave Ms. Mohr Some Bad Information

May 23, 2023

Someone Gave Ms. Mohr Some Bad Information

In a recent article in FRAUD magazine, published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, entitled, “When subjects admit guilt but they’re innocent” the author...

Be Suspicious When You Only Get Part of the Story

Dec 19, 2022

In a recent article entitled, "Law Enforcement Experts on Why Police Shouldn't be Allowed to Lie to Suspects" Professor Saul Kassin describes a series of cases in which he suggests that innocent...

Author Makes Numerous Erroneous Statements about the Reid Technique

Feb 23, 2022

(Dr. Miko M. Wilford wrote a column entitled, "What You Should Know if You Are Interrogated" in Psychology Today, in which she made several erroneous statements about the Reid Technique. Here is...

Wikipedia Misinformation About The Reid Technique

Feb 17, 2022

There are numerous references to the Reid Technique in Wikipedia....here are a few of the misinformed statements that they have made.

Wikipedia: The Reid Technique is a method of interrogation. The...

Correcting a Reporter

Oct 07, 2021

The online publication, syracuse.com, on October 6, 2021 printed a story entitled “Police lies, a botched investigation and a homicide confession: “I’m going to jail for something I didn’t do” in which...

Helping a Reporter Understand the Reid Technique

Aug 18, 2021

Dear Mr. Ciaramella,

In your recent article entitled, “States Are Finally Starting To Rein in Deceptive Police Interrogation Techniques That Lead to False Confessions” you clearly misrepresent the Reid Technique. You stated...

Reid response to recent article

Jun 28, 2021

Dear Emma Ockerman,

In your recently published article, "How Cops Lie to Kids in Interrogations - and Get Away With It" you make the following statement about the Reid Technique:

The issue...

Response to Professor Laura Nirider and Director Lauren Kaeseberg’s Chicago Tribune Opinion Piece on whether the police should be allowed to misrepresent evidence to a criminal suspect

Apr 19, 2021

Response to Professor Laura Nirider and Director Lauren Kaeseberg’s Chicago Tribune Opinion Piece on whether the police should be allowed to misrepresent evidence to a criminal suspect

On Friday April 15...

Response to Professor Kassin's NY Times Opinion Piece on whether the police should be allowed to misrepresent evidence to a criminal suspect

Feb 01, 2021

On Friday January 29, 2020 Professor Saul Kassin published an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, It’s Time for Police to Stop Lying to Suspects, in which he recommended the...