Sentences with phrase «why false confessions»

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?

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This is why, as stated earlier, false confessions will likely result in a wrongful conviction.

With no way to provide an explanation to a jury as to why the accused would confess if they were in fact innocent, that false confession can be the most powerful piece of evidence, and sometimes the only real piece of evidence, against them that can take their life away from them.

Michele LaVigne joined prominent forensic experts Thomas Grisso, Steve Drizin and others at an April symposium, «False Confessions: Why Do They Happen?»