Sentences with phrase «more false confessions»

And that may be leading to more false confessions.

Not exact matches

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

According to researchers, 24 hours» worth of sleeplessness breaks down cognitive faculties to such a degree that you'll be 4.5 times more likely to sign a false confession.3

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.

In the first post in this series, we discussed which particular groups of people were more vulnerable to giving false confessions and should thus receive special protection from such a thing.