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Most people can't imagine any set of circumstances, other than perhaps torture, under which they would confess to a crime they did not commit. And even fewer can imagine ever falsely confessing to a murder, a crime that can lead to a death sentence or life without parole.
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www.martytankleff.org/GUI/Content.aspx?Page=CONFESS
www.martytankleff.org/GUI/Content.aspx?Page=CONFESS
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A reason why some young people falsely confess to police is that they were never taught how to stand on principles and stand up to bullies.
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www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-drizin/why-young-people-fa...
www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-drizin/why-young-people-falsely_b_307236.html
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Advocates for the Norfolk Four are asking Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to grant clemency to the men, as their legal appeals have been exhausted. Those who ask the governor to let the convictions stand say that the confessions are credible and ...
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/810.php
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Steve Drizin is the legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions and an expert on false confessions. In this piece, he describes why juveniles are more likely to confess to crimes they did not commit than adults. Read full story »
http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/crime/2009/10/02/wh...
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huffingtonpost.com — I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma and told police the boy was hi...
http://www.mixx.com/stories/8381563/why_young_people_fa...
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Kluwer (New York) will release Interrogations, Confessions and Entrapment, a new hardbound volume, in July. Moving forward from the premise that standard techniques of interrogation can cause innocent people to falsely confess, the book is designed to ... the origins of psychological interrogation in the U.S.; ... -- A well-executed,
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More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs. ... Pinochet soldiers ready to confess...
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www.thepeoplesvoice.org/
www.thepeoplesvoice.org/
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In my view, the comment attributed to Dr Ian Anderson in the associated BBC news article on why people falsely confess to crimes (namely, "Someone who wants attention to the extent that even negative attention is better than no attention.") is both wrong and misses an important point.
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7950613.stm
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Jane Austen's mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen (1739-1827), was from a higher social rank, minor gentry related distantly to titled people, but once she married the Reverend Austen in 1764 she entered wholeheartedly and with humor into the domestic life and responsibilities of managing a household economy by no...
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people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/austenbio.html
people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/austenbio.html
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