Police Confession Procedures May Lead To False Confessions

Filed under:NewsBits — posted by tc on January 16, 2007 @ 8:37 am

Extensive evidence suggests that police interrogators are poor lie detectors, often disbelieving innocent suspects, even when they have been trained to identify signs of guilt. “The assumption that ‘I’d know a false confession if I saw one’ is an unsubstantiated myth,” says Saul M. Kassin, co-author of the study.

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