The South Dakota Supreme Court reversed a lower court order allowing false‑confession expert testimony in the Timothy Huante ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Karen Boes, in prison for the 2002 killing of her daughter, Robin, 14, contends she falsely confessed – ...

A psychiatrist shouldn’t have been allowed to testify about false confessions during a defendant’s murder trial, according to ...

The South Dakota Supreme Court held a circuit court improperly allowed expert testimony about false confessions in this murder prosecution concerning a fatal shooting outside of a bar. The defendant ...

Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...

AMES, Iowa – Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Anyone would be, but Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty.

What happens when a man says he's guilty of murder, but state-of-the-art-science says he's not? That is the question the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, will soon answer in the ...

In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University psychology professor is leading an international research team developing new interrogation methods designed to reduce false confessions and more effectively ...

It is time for New York state to make a confession of its own: innocent people don't confess to crimes they didn't commit unless they are coerced, and a confession to a crime one didn't commit ought ...

In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...