False Confessions and the Norfolk Four Case

"In the Penal Code, the proof is the most powerful weapon of the prosecutor" (Kassin, 1997) - "Proof of the Queen" (Brooks, 2000). At any point in their legal proceedings, confession statements often proved the most sinful form of evidence and proved to significantly increase the rate of conviction. Legalists argue that defendant's confession is the only evidence considered during the trial and often leads to the recognition of the jury's case (McCormick, 1972).

A few years ago, my colleague (Larry Wrightman) and I have identified two false confessions from police interrogation. We call it a mandatory false confession. The innocent people know they are innocent and are very tense and collapse. And the best way to get away is very confusing. They acknowledge they know they are innocent. In such cases, once the pressure of the situation is removed, they usually give up confession almost instantly. Another type of confession is what we call fake internal confession. It is a situation where an individual actually believes in their sins as a function of lies and their own clues.

Of the 340 exemptions between 1989 and 2004, 51 / defendants admitted that they had not committed a crime. In most cases these false confessions are forced excerpts 47 One person accidentally admitted theft, nine mistakenly acknowledged rape, 48 to 80 percent were mistakenly considered murder It is a sin. Please refer to Table 3. 20% of murder exemption includes false confessions, but only 7% of rape exemption, this comparison underestimates the difference. In the Central Park Jogging Incident held in New York in 1989, there were five false confessions about rape crimes totaling five times or more in total, but when these confessions were done, the victims were injured It is expected to die in a coma at