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Interesting Studies Prove False Confessions Are Relatively Easy For Law Enforcement to Obtain

8/25/2011

  

Follow the "view full press release" link below to a fascinating article published in the August 13, 2011 issue of The Economist discussing new studies which show that people, when placed under even slight amounts of pressure have a tendancy to admit to doing things they have not in fact done. 

These studies offer yet more proof that false confessions happen in our criminal justice system.  Our attorneys are well versed in techniques which can be used to challenge and undermine the techniques used to extract such "confessions" and in discrediting the "confession" itself. 

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