While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The case behind an Evansville family's lawsuit settlement with local police agencies has been called a textbook example of how false confessions can occur. The case also underlines ...

SAY THEY HAVE NO STATEMENT RIGHT NOW. ALSO AT SIX KMBC NINE NEWS, A WOMAN TELLING THE WORLD THAT SHE’S INNOCENT. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I’M KRIS KETZ AND I’M LARA MORITZ. IT STARTED WITH A GRAPHIC ...

Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Three men who were convicted ...

CHICAGO — Law professor Steven Drizin had seen it again and again, and it pained him: Prosecutors wielding a decades-old legal case to justify a juvenile’s confession to a serious crime. Illinois vs.

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University psychology professor is leading an international research team developing new interrogation methods designed to reduce false confessions and more effectively ...