Coerced Confessions

After 2 Decades In Prison, Men Cleared In 1991 Rape And Murder Of Girl

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 01.03.2012

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CHICAGO — After spending almost two decades in jail for a rape and murder he didn't commit, Robert Taylor walked out of an Illinois prison a fre...

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Why Do Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The answer all too often is coercion, intimidation, deceit and trickery. All of those techniques were employed to obtain the conviction of four innocent sailors for the rape and murder of a woman in Norfolk, Virginia.

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NJ Gang-Rape Case: Officials Say Cops Coerced Younger Suspects

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 05.25.2011

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TRENTON, N.J. — The two youngest boys charged with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl last month may have been pressured into confessing and implicat...

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WATCH: Tortured To Confess, Man Freed From Jail After 24 Years

Posted 05.25.2011

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After serving nearly 24 years in jail for the rape and murder of a mail clerk found dead in a South Side apartment, Michael Tillman was freed from pri...

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Guantanamo Detainees Allege Being Injected With Drugs To Coerce Confessions

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. "I'd fall asleep" after ...

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