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Friday, September 21, 2007
Multiple causes
A public
defender writes: “I suspect that even if ending bad interrogation methods and requiring videotaping solve most of the
problem, false confessions aren't going to go away completely. I believe we just had a case where a client admitted to something
to protect someone else, and there will always be the Karrs who confess falsely for the notoriety.”
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Videotaping As Sunlight
Apropos my recent post
noting that videotaping interrogations is not a panacea, a perceptive reader writes: “Seeing the bad interrogation techniques brings to life for juries how false confessions
happen. No panacea, but sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
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Monday, September 3, 2007
Jewell's Legacy
Richard Jewell, the security guard who spotted a suspicious backpack
containing a bomb at the 1996 Olympics, died last week. Instead of hailing his heroism, law enforcement quickly
determined that he had planted the bomb himself. His legacy includes a reminder that law enforcement often makes very
premature determinations of guilt. In Jewell's case, like that of the Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, such
determination temporarily destroyed his life and reputation. For others, it's even worse.
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