Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

In recent years, DNA tests have proved something surprising: people sometimes confess to terrible crimes that they definitely did not commit. One reason seems to be traditional American methods of ...

Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his friends are subjected to a brutal, week-long interrogation by police determined to ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

That's the question Mohammad Jawad's defense attorneys are trying to answer with a motion filed Wednesday afternoon in the Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition, charting a course into some new legal ...

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

In 2003, a little-known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama sponsored first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at addressing the problem of false confessions — one of the leading causes of wrongful ...

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP -- A state appeals court on Friday upheld the interrogation and confessions of a man who robbed a convenience store in 2012, and stole items from his grandmother. Morgan T. Harris, ...

A global groundswell of fascination has surged in recent years around the so-called “true crime” media genre. But this is a trend with a twist. Many of today’s most-watched true crime shows are not ...

Illinois could soon become the first state to bar police from lying to minors during interrogations, a tactic advocates say significantly increases the risk of false confessions. If a law enforcement ...

The 9/11 case is at a crossroads in the long running challenge over whether a key confession is tainted by C.I.A. torture By Carol Rosenberg Reporting from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba The C.I.A.