Sentence examples for because of false confessions from inspiring English sources

During those years, he said, he met other convicts who told him they had been convicted because of false confessions.

The 4 men whose freedom is expected are among 10 who say they had been wrongfully convicted, in part because of false confessions beaten out of them by detectives at the Chicago Police Department's Area 2, under the direction of Cmdr.

That's why it jolted the investigative world this week when one of the nation's largest police consulting firms one that has trained hundreds of thousands of cops from Chicago to New York and federal agents at almost every major agency said it is tossing out the Reid technique because of the risk of false confessions.

A puzzle is raised by cases of false confessions: How could an innocent on convincingly confess to a crime?

Because it's my experience that people are reluctant to believe in the concept of false confessions.

I think it happens in real life, Soering had told his questioners, of false confessions.

Also, a greater understanding about the prevalence of false confessions has emerged, defense lawyers said.

The most useful aspect of "The Central Park Five" may not be its analysis of racism, but rather of false confessions.

To David K. Shipler's commendable compendium of reforms intended to curtail false confessions ("Why Do Innocent People Confess?," Sunday Review, Feb. 26), I would add another: permitting expert testimony on the science of false confessions at trial.

This not only ignored the problem of false confessions, it cynically gutted the intent of the 2004 law.

Two years ago, he put together an anthology called "True Stories of False Confessions" that contained 29 investigative articles.