Sentences with phrase «about false confessions»

Read Eric Caine's story about False Confessions It may seem inconceivable that a defendant would give a false confession, and yet it is an extraordinarily common occurrence.

There have been a lot of articles appearing recently about false confessions — it seems that quite a few major news outlets have been trying to raise awareness of the -LSB-...]

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In the debut episode of Planet Lex, host Dan Rodriguez speaks with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Clinical Professor of Law Steven Drizin and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Laura Nirider about youth interrogation, false confessions, and their representation of Brendan Dassey.

This is something that jurors are beginning to learn about around the country, something that attorneys are beginning to learn about around the country, but this is an important lesson and we need to understand just why false confessions happen, just what we can do to recognize them, and importantly, what we can do to prevent them from happening?