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Hamill Family Chair Professor of Law and Social Psychology and Dean's Circle Scholar

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Theorizing Failed Prosecutions

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2021)

Jon B. Gould, Victoria Smiegocki and Richard Leo

Over the last twenty years, the scholarly field of erroneous convictions has skyrocketed, with multiple articles and books exploring the ...

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A History of Interrogation and Interrogative Suggestibility

The Litigator’s Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology (2021)

Laura H. Nirider, Deborah Davis and Richard Leo

This chapter traces the history of the law surrounding false confessions, beginning with a discussion of the twentieth-century origins of ...

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Interrogation and the Sexual Assault Suspect: On the Synergy between ...

Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses: Investigative Techniques and Operational Challenges (2020)

Deborah Davis, Richard Leo, Tyler Livingston and Peter Rerick

This chapter reviews the attempts of police to elicit confessions to child and adult sexual assault through standard police interrogation ...

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Dr. Richard Leo Report on Sedley Alley

(2019)

Richard Leo

This report by Dr. Richard Leo furnishes an overview of the relevant social science research on the psychology of police ...

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Police Interrogation and Suspect Confessions

The Cambridge Handbook on Policing in North America (2018)

Richard Leo

A police interrogation that induces a false confession not only may result in a wrongful incarceration or conviction. It may ...

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Mental Health and False Confessions

Representing People With Mental Disabilities (2017)

William C. Follette, Richard Leo and Deborah Davis

This chapter reviews various mental disorders and discusses how the vulnerabilities that are typical of these disorders multiply the effectiveness ...

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Police Interrogation and Suspect Confessions: Social Science, Law and Public ...

Academy for Justice: A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (2017)

Richard Leo

In this chapter, I review and analyze the most important findings from the extensive empirical social science research literature on ...

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Police Interrogation, False Confessions, and Alleged Child Abuse Cases

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2017)

Richard Leo

In this lecture, Professor Richard Leo discusses false confession cases, exploring the phenomenon of false confessions, the impact of confession ...

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The Miranda App: Metaphor and Machine

Boston University Law Review (2017)

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson and Richard Leo

For fifty years, the core problem that gave rise to Miranda – namely, the coercive pressure of custodial interrogation – ...

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The Criminology of Wrongful Conviction: A Decade Later

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2016)

Richard Leo

This article reflects on the author’s 2005 article, “Rethinking the Study of Miscarriages of Justice,” which sought to describe what ...

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Analyzing Videotaped Interrogations and Confessions

The Champion (2016)

Brian L. Cutler and Richard Leo

Recorded interrogations are one of the chief procedural reforms fueled by the innocence movement. Police departments in at least 20 ...

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False Confessions in the Twenty-First Century

The Champion (2016)

Richard Leo and Brian L. Cutler

Although the Miranda decision changed police behavior insofar as they routinely provide at least a nominal Miranda warning to suspects, ...

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Contribution to Book

Has the Innocence Movement Become an Exoneration Movement? The Risks ...

Innocent Reflections: A Quarter Century of DNA Exonerations (2016)

Richard Leo

This chapter describes the conceptual move away from factual innocence to legal exonerations based on new evidence of innocence as ...

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Contribution to Book

A History of Interrogation and Interrogative Suggestibility

The Litigator’s Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology (2021)

Laura H. Nirider, Deborah Davis and Richard Leo

This chapter traces the history of the law surrounding false confessions, beginning with a discussion of the twentieth-century origins of ...

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Contribution to Book

Interrogation and the Sexual Assault Suspect: On the Synergy between ...

Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses: Investigative Techniques and Operational Challenges (2020)

Deborah Davis, Richard Leo, Tyler Livingston and Peter Rerick

This chapter reviews the attempts of police to elicit confessions to child and adult sexual assault through standard police interrogation ...

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Contribution to Book

A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation ...

The Handbook of Homicide (2016)

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

This chapter explores the investigative errors, prosecutorial misconduct, and flawed police procedures that are often the cause of wrongful convictions ...

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Interrogation and False Confessions in Rape Cases

PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RAPE INVESTIGATION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (2016)

Richard Leo

Of the 1,705 post-conviction DNA and non-DNA exonerations that have occurred from 1989 to the end of 2015, approximately 13 ...

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The Path to Exoneration

Albany Law Review (2015)

Jon B. Gould and Richard A. Leo

This article is the first systematic empirical study of how the American criminal justice system discovers and responds to factual ...

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What Innocence Means Today and Why it Matters

(2015)

Richard Leo

In this essay the author argues that the definition of innocence and the classification of wrongful convictions matters, both empirically ...

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Honest False Testimony in Allegations of Sexual Offences

Wrongful Allegations of Person Abuse (2015)

J. Guillermo Villalobos, Deborah Davis and Richard Leo

This chapter aims to provide a general review of factors that can lead to honest false testimony by either party ...

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When Exoneration Seems Hopeless: The Special Vulnerability of Sexual Abuse ...

Wrongful Allegations of Person Abuse (2014)

Richard Leo and Deborah Davis

This chapter considers sources of vulnerability among innocent sexual abuse suspects to police-induced false confession. We suggest that sexual abuse ...

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The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism and Social ...

Speaking of Language and Law (2014)

Richard Leo

This chapter examines the 2010 United States Supreme Court case, Berghuis v. Thompkins, which ruled that waiver of a suspect’s ...

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Paul Tappan Award Winner Keynote Address: The Justice Gap and ...

Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society (2014)

Richard Leo

This essay discusses the justice gap in the criminal justice system -- the difference between the promise of justice inherent ...

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Promoting Accuracy in the Use of Confession Evidence: An Argument ...

Temple Law Review (2013)

Richard Leo, Peter Neufeld, Steven Drizin and Andrew Taslitz

This article argues that constitutional criminal procedure rules provide insufficient safeguards against the admissibility of false confession evidence that is ...

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Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America: True and False Confessions and ...

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America (2013)

Deborah Davis, Richard Leo and Michael Williams

American studies of wrongful conviction have revealed a disturbing pattern. For roughly 25 percent of such cases the defendant was ...

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