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The Montgomery County legislator who proposed requiring police statewide to videotape interrogations has withdrawn his bill while Maryland's Police Training Commission develops guidelines for ...

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 ...

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 new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant's 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child. A passage from Sgt. Kroll Goes to the Office (2006), published ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A new exhibition in Romania’s capital spotlights the harsh reality of interrogations carried out by the country’s notorious communist-era secret police. Held at the National ...