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 ...

Ted Bradford was 22 years old when he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit following over nine and a half hours of police interrogation. “I thought just give them the statement, give them what they ...

POLICE INTERROGATIONS are by their very nature dramatic. The stakes are high. There is an imbalance of power. Those involved are under pressure. Narrative is essential to the proceedings: both the ...

An exhibition in Romania’s capital highlights the harsh reality of interrogations by the country's communist-era secret police. Held at the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police interrogations and dramatic confessions are "a staple of countless TV shows, including ones you might not expect," John Oliver said on Sunday night's Last Week Tonight. "But it's not just ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

The Philadelphia Police will start video-recording interrogations in the Homicide Unit in 2014, the Daily News reported. The policy change comes as part of a package of reforms focused on how police ...

In 2003, a little-known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama sponsored first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at addressing the problem of false confessions — one of the leading causes of wrongful ...