Introduction to False Confessions

1. Introduction to False Confessions

A brief introduction.

2. History of Police Interviewing

A brief review of the history of police interviewing to the present.

3. Classifying False Confessions

A brief overview of classification of false confessions.

4. Three Bites of the Apple

Applying false confession theory to pretrial, trial and post-conviction.

5. Research on False Confessions

What has scientific research discovered about false confessions?

6. Handout for “False Confessions: What Every Attorney Should Know.”

Handout from the CLE Seminar.