This will improve transparency and create an indisputable account of what happened during the interrogation — which benefits the entire system. Over half the states in the country and the District of Columbia require recording of certain custodial interrogations either through statute or court action. Press Release. Special Features. Nobody confesses to raping the jogger. They implicate the others. Each of them pitches himself as having played a minor role; others raped her.
That's different than getting five confessions. They didn't confess. Each one actually saw his own confession as a ticket home.
Although there was no DNA evidence linking the five defendants to the crime, two juries convicted them based on the false confessions. Their convictions were vacated in after another man confessed to the crime. They all served between six to 13 years in prison. According to the Innocence Project , a national organization that works to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing, 28 percent of exonerations obtained from using DNA evidence involved defendants who made false confessions.
Of those, 49 percent were 21 years old or younger at the time of their arrest. Jeffrey Deskovic was just 16 years old when he was arrested for the rape and murder of his classmate Angela Correa in Westchester County, New York. Despite the lack of physical evidence connecting Deskovic to Correa's rape or murder, he was convicted in He spent 16 years in prison before he was exonerated in based on a re-examination of DNA evidence, after the Innocence Project took on his case.
His conviction was later overturned. Deskovic recently graduated from Pace Law School in May and is working to become a lawyer. Through his foundation, The Deskovic Foundation, he works to help the wrongfully convicted. Kassin said that if that all interrogations are videotaped from start to finish, the number of false confessions would be reduced.
He said a complete video recording would offer to judges, juries and prosecutors an objective look at what was said and done. Not if you're only watching the confession. This is critical because the confession alone isn't enough to get a conviction — it must be corroborated with additional proof.
So, almost every false confession is backed by erroneous evidence, Kassin said. Like in the case of Rober Miller, an Oklahoma man charged with murder, robbery and rape. After Miller falsely confessed, forensics only considered blood and saliva samples that could have matched Miller and disregarded other samples saying they could have been from the victim, according to a case report from the Innocence Project. This misinterpretation of evidence led to Millers conviction, and also got the actual perpetrator off the hook.
The unexpected number of false confessions since the early s, however, has ushered some safeguards into place. Maybe we will even see fewer exonerations in the next decade, Kassin said. Even so, the system isn't very effective at evaluating the merits of a confession once it happens. We need to change the way people think about confessions, he said. Originally published on Live Science. Live Science. See all comments 4. Gaslighting - you are manipulated to believe something is true because someone else says so.
I give up- it's an easy way to end the pressure and just go home. Some people do this for the same reason that they eat tide pods on you tube.
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