False Confessions And Interrogations In The Criminal Justice System

I would like to present two problem areas in the criminal justice field, Confessions and Interrogations. Did you know that people confess to crimes that they did not commit. Pressure and interrogations have got some people to soak up a false confession leading them to jail. You'd think that innocent people would never confess to something that they did not do. I once believed that a confessions trumped all evidence. I assumed that once a confession was made, that it is the ending factor to the case. I thought that only mentally disabled and not that intellectual, will be the ones that make false confessions.
I do understand how false confessions are coerced out of someone's mouth. I never took the time to think that, of course, the defendant
Many police will look at the lengthy sentenced and think that no innocent person will admit to something they did not do. But, many have admitted falsely to crimes that they have not committed due to be objected to hours of interrogations from law enforcement. " One false confessor, Earl Washington, spent almost ten of his more than seventeen years of imprisonment on Virginia's death row in pain with the 9 days of being executed before being exonerated in 2001. Throughout American history police induced false confessions have been among the leading causes of miscarriages of the justice system. It is easy to understand how beatings, torture, sleep deprivation, and threats of violence may lead an innocent person to confess falsely. Yet with psychological interrogation methods, the idea that an innocent person would confess to a crime he did not commit a felony that carries the possibility of a prison sentence or even the death penalty is not likely" (Leo, pg.
Here in America, police are poorly trained on the psychological effects of the depth of interrogation and how it may lead to the result of a confession. Like most people on the outside, once they hear a confession they are more likely to believe it whether it may be true or not. This, sometimes, is the same approach that law enforcement takes when they hear a confession. Law enforcement thinking should be quite different than a person on the outside, they should have training on whether or not the confession is valuable to the case or not. "American judges tend to presume that a defendant who has confessed is guilty and come out accordingly, treat him more punitively. Conditioned to disbelieve defendants' claims' of innocence or people misconduct, judges rarely to suppress confessions, even highly questionable ones" (Leo,