Sentences with phrase «false confessions so»

Intentional misrepresentations of law or fact by police during an interrogation can lead to false confessions so they should be viewed with skepticism

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Then the «journalist» proceeded to claim that false data was widespread and that there was a coverup, but so far no evidence has been presented other than the original employee (who was fired in 2011) own confession of his wrongdoing.

Coffee, a public defender for the past 13 years, says child abuse cases often raise the stakes so high that a bias toward false confessions may be concealed within the data.

So what can be done to avoid more of these false confessions in the future?

So even clear - headed people could be fooled into making a false confession.

Even more importantly, the court held that the confession itself was so obviously false — having been produced by the detectives «deceptive practices» — that the defendant could not be re-tried.

As Laura Nirider explained so well yesterday, defense lawyers and some courts have been developing a «new, scientifically - driven awareness of the problem of false confessions.»

«This case presented a unique chance to objectively prove that the confession in this case is false — science proves that this so - called confession was fundamentally untrue and coerced.»