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False Confession Generator: How Accusatorial Interrogations Undermine the Pursuit of Justice
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2022
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2023, page 1
Filed under:
False Confessions.
Location:
United States of America.
by Anthony W. Accurso
There are many aspects of the criminal justice system in the U.S. that are in desperate need of reform, but one aspect — how we obtain information from potential suspects — is perhaps more troubling than others because it does more than just undermine the pursuit ...
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- False Confession Generator: How Accusatorial Interrogations Undermine the Pursuit of Justice, by Anthony Accurso
- Arizona Supreme Court Announces Jury Unanimity Required Regarding Narcotic Type Under Possession Statute, by Anthony Accurso
- Against the Flow: How the National Registry of Exonerations Is Working to Turn the Tide of Wrongful Convictions Across U.S., by Benjamin Tschirhart
- Ninth Circuit Announces District Courts May Consider First Step Act’s Non-Retroactive Changes to Sentencing Law When Deciding Motion for Compassionate Release, by Douglas Ankney
- Across the Nation, Cops Use ‘Fog Reveal’ to Track More Than 250 Million Mobile Devices, by Douglas Ankney
- First Circuit Reverses Denial of Habeas Relief Where District Court Found Batson Error but Observed AEDPA, Deferred to State Court’s Finding that No Batson Error Occurred, by Douglas Ankney
- Federal Habeas Corpus: How to Raise an Actual Innocence Claim, by Dale Chappell
- Second Circuit Announces District Courts Must Provide Habeas Petitioners with Notice and Opportunity To Be Heard Before Dismissing Petition Sua Sponte Based on Stone’s Limitation on Fourth Amendment Claims, by Douglas Ankney
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Criminal Record Alone Does Not Justify Patfrisk, Gun Discovered in Waistband Suppressed, by Jacob Barrett
- Third Circuit: Defendant Entitled to Reasonable Opportunity to File Sentencing Memo Before Resentencing Under First Step Act, by David Reutter
- Fifth Circuit Denies Absolute Immunity for Prosecutor Who Fabricated Evidence in Murder Conviction and Death Sentence, by Douglas Ankney
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- Fourth Circuit Announces Substantive Reasonableness Review Applies to All Proceedings Under § 404 of First Step Act, Regardless of Whether Motion Is Granted or Denied, by Douglas Ankney
- Sixth Circuit Announces Criminal Forfeiture Under Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2(b) Is Mandatory Claims-Processing Rule, Reverses $62.5 Million Money Judgments, by Douglas Ankney
- Colorado Supreme Court: Police Officer’s ‘Hunches’ Cannot Establish Probable Cause, Determination Requires Consideration of Facts Weighing in Favor and Against Probable Cause, by Anthony Accurso
- Kentucky Supreme Court Announces Obtaining Real-Time CSLI Data Constitutes a Search Under Fourth Amendment, Addressing Legal Question U.S. Supreme Court Explicitly Left Open in Carpenter, by Anthony Accurso
- New York Court of Appeals Reverses Murder Conviction Where Trial Court’s Evidentiary Rulings Deprived Defendant of ‘Opportunity to Present Complete Defense’, by Douglas Ankney
- Miami Police Officer Who Broke ‘Blue Code of Silence’ Being Investigated, by Casey Bastian
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- NIST’s Upgrade to Software Reference Library Makes Data More Accessible to Law Enforcement, by Douglas Ankney
- For $10 Billion, New Yorkers Get a Police Package Deal That Includes Corrupt Career Officers and Almost 1,000 Criminal Cases Tossed, by Douglas Ankney
- Indiana Supreme Court Announces Trial Rule 26(B)(3) Governs Whether Police Reports Are Protected Work Product, Expressly Overruling Keaton, by Douglas Ankney
- Variability in Records Requests Obscures Police Use of Surveillance, by Anthony Accurso
- U.S. Senator to Federal Agency: Investigate Abusive Use of Administrative Subpoena Power to Gather Bulk Financial Records, by Casey Bastian
- Fog Data Science, Your Hometown Data Broker, by Anthony Accurso
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- $220,000 Settlement After Woman Dies in Ohio Jail From Drug Withdrawal, Feb. 15, 2025
- Colorado Supreme Court Holds Defendant Was in ‘Custody’ for Miranda Purposes Because She Had Hands Bagged and Zip Tied, Commanded Not to Remove Them, and Questioned Alone in Interrogation Room With Door Closed, Feb. 15, 2025
- First Circuit Holds No Emergency-Aid Exception to Warrant Requirement Where Police Have Information That Subject Is Already Deceased, Feb. 15, 2025
- Police Departments Are Now Using AI to Write Reports, Feb. 15, 2025
- Illinois Supreme Court Announces Odor of Burnt Cannabis Alone Is Insufficient to Establish Probable Cause for a Warrantless Vehicle Search, Feb. 1, 2025
- Mass Spectrometry Being Studied as Way to Analyze Overlapping or Weak Fingerprints, Feb. 1, 2025
- Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Relief Where Both Trial and Appellate Counsel Provided Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Challenge Indictment for Residential Burglary That Failed to Allege Defendant Illegally Entered a ‘Dwelling’, Jan. 15, 2025
- Childhood Trauma Incidence Higher Among Those Incarcerated, Jan. 15, 2025
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More from these topics:
- Michigan Supreme Court: Fundamentally Unfair to Deny Indigent Defendant Funds to Retain False Confession Expert Where Genuineness of Confession Key Issue at Trial, Dec. 1, 2024. Expert Witnesses/Testimony, False Confessions, Indigent Defendants - Fees and Expenses.
- Research Paper Reveals Laypeople Have Insufficient Understanding of False Confessions by Examining Prior Research Based on Surveys and Mock Juries, March 15, 2024. Commentary/Reviews, False Confessions, Confessions and Statements of Defendant.
- Interrogating a Suspect With an Intellectual Disability Using the Reid Technique: Recipe for a False Confession, Sept. 1, 2023. Murder/Felony Murder, False Confessions, Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disability.
- Saul Kassin Probes Dangerous Practices in ‘Duped: Why Innocent People Confess-and Why We Believe Their Confessions’, June 15, 2023. False Confessions, Validity of.
- Mental Illness and False Confessions: A Wakeup Call to Investigators, Feb. 15, 2022. Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), False Confessions.
- U.S. v. Jacques, No. 09-cr-30001-MAP (D.Mass.) ( F.Supp.2d ) (May 17, 2011) (Judge Michael A. Ponsor), Nov. 14, 2011. Punch And Jurists, False Confessions.
