Crime, False Confessions and Videotape

"New York Times," January 10, 2003

Ideas & Trends; Why Confess to What You Didn't Do?

By Susan Saulny, "New York Times," December 8, 2002

False Confessions and the Jogger Case

By Saul Kassin, "New York Times," November 1, 2002

Crimes Admitted, but Not Committed

By Jim Dwyer, "New York Times," October 20, 2002

Anatomy of a False Confession

By Jack Kresnak, Free Press Staff Writer, February 27, 2001 Some Question Cops' Methods When Grilling Youth

The Truth About Confessions

By Peter Brooks, "New York Times," September 1, 2002

What causes people to give false confessions?

"Untrue Confessions"

By Jill Smolowe, Michele Donley/Chicago and James Wilwerth/Los Angeles, "Time," May. 22, 1995

Untrue Confessions

By Mark Hansen, ABA Journal. No one says that police have brought out the rubber hose, but some of their interrogation techniques are raising questions about why innocents confess to crimes they didn't commit.

False Confessions by Adults

From ReligiousTolerance.org, Ontario consultants on Religious Tolerance

Groups Laud Major Legislation To Improve the Criminal Justice System

The Innocence Project, Facts on False Confessions

False Confessions: Coercion often leads to false confessions

www.post-gazette.com, August 31, 2006 By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Marty Tankleff: 17 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, July 11, 2008

Suffolk County starts videotaping homicide interrogations

Twenty years after Martin Tankleff was sentenced to 50 years in prison based upon a false confession, Suffolk county begins to videotape homicide interrogations.

Nebraska Should Pay Man in False Confession Case

Steve Drizen of Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions Asks Nebraska to Pay Man in False Confession Case

Japanese Prosecutors Charged with Wrongdoing

Japanese Legal System Protects Prosecutors

John Grisham, The Confession

John Grisham has a new book, The Confession, a true to life tale of a false confession and the death penalty set in Texas.

Rubin Hurricane Carter

Rubin Hurricane Carter's new book,"Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom."

The Brenton Butler Case

Ten years ago Brenton Butler went on trial for a murder he did not commit based on a false and coerced confession and faulty i.d. testimony. The case became the subject of an Academy Award winning film -Murder on a Sunday Morning – and has led to significant changes in the interrogation practices of Jacksonville officers. Whereas they once opposed electronic recording, it is now standard practice in homicide case.