Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe declared that he did not plan to grant pardons in the West Memphis Three case unless evidence showed that someone else committed the murders. The West Memphis Three were convicted of three murders in 1993 . The case was based in large part on a suspect confession by one of the co-defendants
Why Interrogation Techniques Lead to False Confessions
By Rob McKinney on
Posted in Confessions
Interrogation techniques work and sometimes they lead to false confessions in murder and child sex crimes. Why ?
Suspect factors :
1. Studies have shown that vulnerable persons , such as juveniles , mentally ill or mentally retarded are much more vulnerable to police interrogation techniques.
2 .However , The Reid techniques and it’s…