Boes has ferociously maintained her innocence since her confession, which followed a ten-hour interrogation in 2002.

Lawyers for the Libyan man want an alleged confession to the attack on Pan Am flight 103 ruled inadmissable as evidence in a ...

An expert on false confessions will be allowed to testify during a new trial for a man convicted of two murders but whose conviction was vacated last year amid the fallout from judicial misconduct ...

The South Dakota Supreme Court reversed a lower court order allowing false‑confession expert testimony in the Timothy Huante ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Karen Boes, in prison for the 2002 killing of her daughter, Robin, 14, contends she falsely confessed – ...

While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

A new California law prohibits law enforcement from using threats or lies to get a minor to confess to a crime. The law faced opposition, but now a conservative district attorney is urging law ...

It happens more often than one might expect. According to the Innocence Project, fully one-quarter of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence involve a false confession. Many involve promises ...

In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

One of us is a law professor who has helped exonerate more than a dozen people who falsely confessed to crimes. The other is a filmmaker who became fascinated with the problems of false confessions ...

WASHINGTON — In 2015, millions of people watched “Making a Murderer,” a Netflix documentary series about the murder prosecutions of two Wisconsin men. Opinions varied on the guilt of the program’s ...