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The Innocence Project is up to 354 DNA exonerations, and reports that more than one fourth of the people wrongly convicted gave false confessions or at least made incriminating admissions.
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Earlier this week I testified as a false confessions expert at a homicide trial in Connecticut. This is the 22nd jurisdiction in which I have been qualified as a false confessions expert witness.
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Earlier this month, in the case of Dassey v. Dittmann, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a state court’s determination that a confession to rape/murder by a minor was voluntary. Most encouraging, though, is Judge Rovner’s excellent dissenting opinion arguing that courts’ treatment of police trickery in a voluntariness determination needs
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Attorneys looking for a false confessions expert witness should know that I have been qualified as an expert in the following jurisdictions: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and federal court in Mississippi.
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Years ago, I testified as an expert on false confessions in a case in Kentucky which resulted in a hung jury (with ten jurors voting to acquit). Tragically, in the re-trial, the defendant was convicted. I recently learned that last year Kentucky’s Supreme Court vacated the conviction because the trial court should not have admitted
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A judge has ruled my testimony admissible for a forthcoming trial in Alaska. This marks the 21st jurisdiction in which I’ve been qualified as a false confessions expert. Courts around the country increasingly permit expert testimony to inform the jurors about the counter-intuitive phenomenon of false confessions.
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The notorious case of the Englewood Four in Chicago has been in the news again, as more evidence of prosecutorial corruption has emerged. What a tragic case — four teenagers coerced into false confessions spent 15 years incarcerated before being exonerated by DNA.
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With the rash of executions in Arkansas, it’s a good time to remember that a number of people on death row (including some who gave false confessions) have been exonerated.
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