A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

Defense attorneys should continue to argue that the People cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a stationhouse confession is voluntary when they fail to provide a complete recording of the ...

The Montgomery County legislator who proposed requiring police statewide to videotape interrogations has withdrawn his bill while Maryland's Police Training Commission develops guidelines for ...

Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the... It's legal for police to use deception in ...

A Chilling Romanian Exhibition Replays Videotaped Secret Police Interrogations From 1989 BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A new exhibition in Romania’s capital spotlights the harsh reality of interrogations ...

A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a reason to think the confession was ...