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“Interrogation-Related Regulatory Decline:” Ego-Depletion, Failures of Self-Regulation and the Decision to Confess (with Deborah Davis), Forthcoming (2011)

As reflected in rulings ranging from Trial Courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, our judiciary...

 

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Reply to Samuel R. Gross and Barbara O'Brien (with Jon Gould), Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2011)

In the current issue of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Professors Sam Gross...

 

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Selling Confession: Setting the Stage with the "Sympathetic Detective with a Time-Limited Offer" (with Deborah Davis and William C. Follette), Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2010)

The effectiveness of an interrogation tactic dubbed the “sympathetic detective with a time limited offer”...

 

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Commentary: Overcoming Judicial Preferences for Person- Versus Situation-Based Analyses of Interrogation-Induced Confessions (with Deborah Davis), Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2010)

This article identifies some fundamentally mistaken assumptions underlying admissibility decisions favoring disposition-related expert testimony regarding...

 

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Interrogation through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating its Intent (with Deborah Davis), Oxford Handbook on Language and Law (2010)

In response to increasing evidence that police interrogation procedures can and do elicit false confessions...