Sentences with phrase «because false confessions»

You need the DNA evidence because false confessions happen.

Not exact matches

Because of the cumulative effect of these coercive techniques — the leading, the fact ‐ feeding, the false promises, the manipulation of Dassey's desire to please, the physical, fatherly assurances as [Calumet County Sheriff's investigator Mark] Wiegert touched Dassey's knee etc. — no reasonable court could have any confidence that this was a voluntary confession.

Some exonerees are denied their compensation because of their false confessions, despite the fact that they were coerced, psychologically manipulated, and suffered the same amount as a result of the same failures of the criminal justice system.

To deny an innocent person compensation for their time spent suffering behind bars because of a crime that they never committed is unjust, false confession or not.