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Category Archives: False confessions
Linda Fairstein: Central Park Five guilty as charged
The videotapes show that “the questioning [of the Central Park Five] was respectful, dignified, carried out according to the letter of the law and with sensitivity to the young age of the men. . . . If you spot the first sign of … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, False confessions
Tagged Central Park Five, Judge Vito Titone, Linda Fairstein
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Videotaping Interrogations: The Court of Appeals Blows It
Ten years ago the Massachusetts high court, fed up with hearing “repeated pronouncements” about the fabulous benefits of recording police interrogations, decided to do something about it. Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista (2004). Cops don’t record interrogations? Fine. But if the … Continue reading
Let’s solve the Etan Patz case with a wrongful conviction
Martian: Greetings, Earthling. I am Professor tg/46# of the Inter-Galactic School of Law. Your Constitution and case law are stored in my lower P-5b. I hear a Manhattan judge has just found the confession of a mentally ill man voluntary, even … Continue reading
Prosecutors’ junta gets coal in its stocking for Christmas
Next month, the case of Adrian Thomas will be heard in the NY Court of Appeals. Mr. Thomas was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of his infant son despite overwhelming medical evidence that the baby had suffered … Continue reading
The interrogation industry: Part 2
A recent NIJ report found that if you collected all the decisions finding a confession voluntary because the suspect wasn’t handcuffed and was offered a Coke – they would make enough paper mache to cover the Great Wall of China. … Continue reading
The interrogation industry: Part 1
Half a century ago the Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona described with distaste the tricks and psychological manipulations recommended in police training manuals. Quoting from the 1962 edition of Inbau & Reid’s Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, the Court described the ruse whereby … Continue reading
Everything is voluntary. . . in its own wa-ay
Squawk’s idea of a treat is writing as a “friend” of the Court about what the Law oughta be. With no page limit! We’re busily providing the Albany Seven with a lifetime supply of doorstops. Our pitch is that courts … Continue reading
