confession
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Former Philly Cop James Pitts Found Guilty Of Forcing False Murder Confession From Wrongly Convicted Man
The former Philadelphia homicide detective violently coerced a confession from Obina Onyiah.
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Illinois Set to Become First State to Bar Police Officers From Lying to Minors to Coerce Confessions
The state of Illinois is on its way to becoming the first in the nation to bar police officers from lying to minors during interrogations. In an effort to prohibit the manipulative tactics cops often use to coerce confessions that often turn out to be false confessions—to which people under the age of 18 are…
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Man on Death Row for 33 Years Will Get New Hearing After 'Damning Revelations' of Police Misconduct
Following years of appeals, a Utah man sentenced to death for a 1985 murder is set to get a new hearing after the main witnesses in the case—who vanished into thin air after his conviction—resurfaced after 25 years to allege that investigators threatened them with deportation and paid them to lie in their testimony. In…