Reducing a Guilty Suspect`s Resistance to Confessing
Reducing a Guilty Suspect`s Resistance to Confessing

... familiarize themselves with departmental policy and laws applicable to the use of deceit in their respective jurisdictions. Also, theme-driven interrogations can be highly persuasive ...
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From Federal Attorney General Raúl Cervantes Andrade
From Federal Attorney General Raúl Cervantes Andrade

... I am very concerned about the case of Verónica Razo, a torture survivor who has been in prison for almost six years without being convicted of any crime. On 8 June 2011, Verónica left her house to pick up her children from school when a vehicle with a group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing ...

False confession

A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime for which the confessor is not responsible. False confessions can be induced through coercion or by the mental disorder or incompetency of the accused. Research demonstrates that false confessions occur on a regular basis in case law, which is one reason why jurisprudence has established a series of rules - called ""confession rules"" - to detect, and subsequently reject, false confessions. Plea agreements typically require the defendant to stipulate to a set of facts establishing that he/she is guilty of the offense; in the United States federal system, before entering judgment on a guilty plea, the court must determine that there is a factual basis for the plea.