30th September 2011 7:16
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A Review Of One Decade's Worth Of Murder Cases In A Single Illinois County Found 247 Instances In Which The Defendants' Self-Incriminating Statements Were Thrown Out By The Court Or Found By A Jury To Be Insufficiently Convincing For Conviction.

letterstomycountry:

Those are all false confessions.  Undoubtedly coerced by police investigators.

UPDATE: this paper suggests that a particular 9-step interrogation technique convinced innocent people to confess to crimes they didn’t commit at a rate of 43%.

fourty-three percent.

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  7. metamorphoseandbodhi said: That’s fucked up. :-\
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