Sentences with phrase «for false confessions»

What distinguishes a Mr. Big operation from the confession in Welsh, is that in the former the accused is seeking admission or protection from a gang, and contains a strong motive for false confessions.

«We propose that sleep deprivation sets the stage for a false confession by impairing complex decision making abilities — specifically, the ability to anticipate risks and consequences, inhibit behavioral impulses, and resist suggestive influences.»

Not exact matches

Tucked into the new state budget are reforms that court officials have championed for years to reduce two causes of wrongful convictions — false confessions and mistaken identifications.

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.

Many of the sub-genres on the margins of fiction — fables, parables, tales, chronicles — routinely come in miniature but potent receptacles, like the bottles of vodka and bourbon served on passenger planes, as do numerous other documents and oral presentations ripe for fictionalizing — job applications, confessions, courtroom speeches, love letters, advisory perorations («that thou can» st not be false to any man»).

A common theme among false confessions is having sat in interrogation rooms for unimaginable amounts of time before finally giving the confession.

Expert testimony on false confessions can provide basis for new trial.

As we discussed in the first False Confessions, these tactics can be particularly effective and damaging for certain groups of people.

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.

Police misconduct may be to blame for many false confessions, but there are many factors that may lead a person to admit to a crime they did not...

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.

A national epidemiological study investigating risk factors for police interrogation and false confession among juveniles and young persons.