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A forced confession is a confession obtained from a suspect or a prisoner by means of torture (including enhanced interrogation techniques) or other forms...

of a coerced false confession during police interrogation. Joshua Treadway, a friend of Michael's, was questioned and gave a detailed confession after...

convicted of Dodge's rape and murder, based upon faulty evidence and a coerced confession. At the same time, authorities continued to search for other suspects...

under plea bargaining might lead to such false confessions. A forced or coerced confession is a confession obtained from a suspect or a prisoner by means...

August 2016, a federal magistrate judge ruled that Dassey's confession had been coerced and overturned his conviction and ordered him released, which...

judge overturned Dassey's conviction on the grounds that his confession had been coerced. In June 2017, Wisconsin prosecutors appealed this decision....

clarifying the standard of review of a criminal defendant's allegedly coerced confession. The ruling was divided into parts, with various justices voting in...

aversion to the use of coerced confessions because of their inherent unreliability. Further the rights to be free from coerced confession cannot be waived nor...

conviction, believing Murdoch's prosecution to have depended on a coerced confession by witness Dino Dinardo. She hired attorneys and investigators at...

recommendation also cited a coerced confession obtained by the FBI, which one former agent described as the “sorriest confession” he had ever seen. The FBI...

victims who were on death row and whose convictions were based on coerced confessions. In 2008, Patrick Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for Northern...

the taint of an unlawful arrest, when the unlawful arrest led to a coerced confession. Dunaway was picked up by Rochester police and taken to the police...

Halbach, and Dassey's legal team's efforts in arguing that his confession was coerced by prosecutors and his constitutional rights were violated. The...

"rehabilitation" early in 1956, Fryer felt guilty about having reportd the coerced confession, and gave a letter of resignation to his editor, Johnny Campbell....

Committed, was published on March 2, 2021. Set as the flashback in a coerced confession of a political prisoner, the book tells the story of the South Vietnamese...

been convicted of his mother's murder based on what many felt was a coerced confession and little other evidence. Barthel documented the case in her book...

drowned. The girl's father, Kevin Fox, was initially charged based on a coerced confession. He spent eight months in jail before being cleared by DNA evidence...

calms Luke down, leading to Warrinder’s arrest. Warrinder insists his coerced confession will not hold up in court, but Frost reveals that both Carpenter and...

withdrawal. Conlon wrote in his autobiography that a key factor in his coerced confession was that anti-terrorism laws passed in the early 1970s allowed the...

takes back all he said, was ‘coerced’ Indian Express – 31 March 2011 Swami Aseemanand takes back confession, says he was "coerced" Archived 3 April 2011 at...