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

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

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

The debate sparked by Herring v. United States is a microcosm of the quintessential debate...

In this article the authors analyze a century of research on the causes and consequences...

Reviewing the literature on police-induced confessions, we identified suspect characteristics and interrogation tactics that influence...

In 1965, Yale Kamisar authored “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal...

Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to crimes...

Situational factors – in the form of interrogation tactics – have been reported to unduly...

Psychological police interrogation methods in America inevitably involve some level of pressure and persuasion to...

In the last two decades, hundred of convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA and...

A steadily increasing tide of literature has documented the existence and causes of false confession...

There has been an explosion of legal scholarship on wrongful convictions in the last decade,...

This essay focuses on the author's experience as an expert witness in the murder trial...

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

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

The use of torture during interrogations conducted by U.S. special forces, military police, CIA agents,...

Research has demonstrated that false confessors whose cases are not dismissed before trial are often...

Many cases could not be successfully prosecuted without a confession, and, in the absence of...

False confessions are a major cause of wrongful convictions. In many countries, physical abuse and...

In this chapter, the authors summarize the scholarly literature on false confessions and propose possible...

Researchers have amply documented that contemporary methods of psychological interrogation can, and sometimes do, lead...

On the television police drama NYPD Blue, Andy Sipowicz and his colleagues often use threats...

This chapter describes and analyzes third degree interrogation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. The...

This chapter explores whether a Miranda-like warning and waiver regime could be successfully implemented in...

This amicus brief, filed in Florida v. Powell, 130 S. Ct. 1195 (2010), addresses the...