We've known that the public and juries downplay the risks of false confessions. New research shows that even legal ...

A former Detroit cop is at the center of at least six murder investigations that have been overturned or vacated after ...

Leonard [email protected] YORK-When a beleaguered 13-year-old confessed to murder after hours of interrogation in a Mississippi sheriff's station in 2003, he had been isolated from his mother and had ...

Believe it or not, innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit – as did yogurt shop murder defendant Michael Scott, says lawyer, sociologist, and University of San Francisco professor ...

Twenty-seven years after being convicted of a murder he said he didn't commit, a Detroit man walked out of a Michigan prison on Tuesday as a free man, following a Wayne County judge's decision to ...

In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...

And though Robinson's defense attorney might have found the witness to be helpful in building his case, an Armstrong County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled that allowing expert testimony about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has cleared the way for a retrial to go forward after all in an infamous 1984 murder case ...