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Leo & Ofshe, 1998). Rattner (1988), in a sample of 205 cases of wrongful convictions, reports that coerced confessions accounted for 8.4%. In a study of 229 inmates in Icelandic prisons, 27 (12%) of the inmates claimed to have made a false confession in the past during police interviewing (Gudjonsson & Sigurdsson,
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www.ipt-forensics.com/library/coerced.htm
www.ipt-forensics.com/library/coerced.htm
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False confession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A false confession is an admission of guilt in a crime in which the confessor is not responsible for the crime. False confessions can be induced through coercion or by the mental incompetency of the...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession
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When the Supreme Court incorporated the Fifth Amendment privilege against self‐incrimination and applied this provision to the states in 1964 (Malloy v. Hogan), coerced confession claims were reviewed against that provision of the Bill of Rights (see Incorporation Doctrine).
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www.answers.com/topic/coerced-confessions
www.answers.com/topic/coerced-confessions
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Appellant had given three pre-trial admissions to CID. The defense sought to exclude the confessions as being coerced. The military judge permitted the defense to present expert testimony on coerced confessions, ... Our goal is to focus on trial practice issues in cases arising under the UCMJ and being tried at court-martial.
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courtmartial.typepad.com/mljucmj/2009/08/coerced-confes...
courtmartial.typepad.com/mljucmj/2009/08/coerced-confessions-case.html
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In one of the Court’s earliest cases, Brown v. Mississippi (1936), it held that a state conviction obtained by use of a coerced confession violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause. Brown’s confession had been extracted by using a whip.
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law.jrank.org/pages/18686/Interrogation-Confession.html
law.jrank.org/pages/18686/Interrogation-Confession.html
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Two cases which I have written about on this blog can now be officially categorized as exonerations -- ... J.A. claimed that police coerced him into giving a false confession but once the court ruled the confession would be admitted (J.A. took the plea which ensured he'd receive treatment as opposed to punishment).
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blog.law.northwestern.edu/bluhm/2006/11/updates_on_fals...
blog.law.northwestern.edu/bluhm/2006/11/updates_on_fals.html
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When faced with claims of false or coerced confessions, some prosecutors, concerned more with preserving convictions than with the truth or fearful of alienating the police officers who took the confession, refuse to even acknowledge the possibility of problems with the confession.
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blog.law.northwestern.edu/bluhm/2007/06/prosecutors_who...
blog.law.northwestern.edu/bluhm/2007/06/prosecutors_who.html
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Why do innocent people confess?; A variety of factors can contribute to a false confession during a police interrogation. Many cases have included a combination of several of these causes. They include:
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www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.p...
www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php
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The rules appear carefully crafted to ensure than an accused can be convicted — and possibly executed — based on nothing but a coerced confession. ... Thomas Hemingway, legal adviser to the Pentagon’s office on commissions, said he doubted that most cases would rely solely on coercive or hearsay evidence.
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thinkprogress.org/2007/01/19/dwight-sullivan/
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