Comments on: “The truth about false confessions” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/05/the-truth-about-false-confessions/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 31 May 2006 08:44:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: E-Bell https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/05/the-truth-about-false-confessions/comment-page-1/#comment-3052 Wed, 31 May 2006 08:44:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3514#comment-3052 I don’t know if false confessions are as common as the web site claims, but there needs to be a better accounting by police departments of the tactics that they use when interviewing suspects. Perhaps require each interrogation session to be videotaped?

The drawback is, if we start second-guessing every interrogation tactic the cops use, there will be grounds to throw out EVERY confession. I wonder if psychiatrists could come up with some kind of standard protocol that would be kind of a “safe harbor” for interrogations, one not likely to result in a false confession.

]]> By: J.T. Wenting https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/05/the-truth-about-false-confessions/comment-page-1/#comment-3051 Wed, 31 May 2006 00:24:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3514#comment-3051 So what’s a judge to do? Consider someone automatically innocent if they confess in order to prevent convicting someone who comitted fraud by confessing to something he didn’t do?

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