Last month, we wrote a piece here on reasons why innocent people wind up confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. It’s a horrible thought, yet it happens far too often. (For tips on defending cases involving a confession, see our CLE lecture over at West Legal Ed Center.) Anyway, there’s a...
The blawgosphere was atwitter recently over that Kentucky murder trial where the defendant had confessed, but claimed it was a false confession, due to “sleep-deprived psychosis” from drinking too much coffee. The jury didn’t buy it (here’s a short article on it). Did that case remind anyone else of this...
It should come as no surprise to anyone with any experience in criminal law that perfectly innocent people will sometimes confess to crimes they did not commit. Perhaps they were in a suggestible state, and the police led them to believe they’d done it. Maybe they were broken by the...
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