Lori Ackerman was charged with murder following the death of her fiancé, Shannon Tate, in 2020. A Clay County jury acquitted ...

While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

An expert on false confessions will be allowed to testify during a new trial for a man convicted of two murders but whose conviction was vacated last year amid the fallout from judicial misconduct ...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Wednesday announced a new policy aimed at preventing false confessions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced a new policy on statements made by children in custodial interrogations this ...

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --A defense expert in the trial of Pedro Hernandez, the man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, says Hernandez may be more vulnerable to making a false confession ...

Would you confess to a crime you did not commit? Many people would respond instantaneously with a firm, "No." But they do and often, says Saul Kassin, one of the country’s leading experts on false ...