Jeffery Deskovic's False Confession

The chapter focuses on the importance of contaminated confessions by expanding on the various reasons behind the possibility as to why a confession might be contaminated, these are identified throughout the text in various explanations as to why confessions can be tampered with: the puzzle of false confessions, contaminated false confessions, law enforcement practices, corroborated and nonpublic facts, denying disclosing facts, recorded false interrogations, and inconsistent facts (Garrett, 2011). In the case of Jeffery Deskovic’s false confession the police officers gave him facts that were explicit to the case and despite the DNA evidence that was pointing to someone else committing the crime, Jeffery was convicted for 16 years. Jeffery sued for his civil rights being violated. The puzzle behind false confessions is that police are suspected of feeding details of a crime to a compliant suspect. The book asked the question “why do innocent people confess in detail to crimes they had not committed” The relational is that if an individual gives the police exactly what they want then that will, in turn, let those being questioned to be able to go home (Garrett, 2011).
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This further illustrates that police officers can use multiple tactics other than simple questioning such as deception, a list of narratives, and open-ended questions. Suspects might admit that committing the crime for multiple reasons including mental illness, desire for attention, and to protect loved ones. Corroborated and nonpublic facts are based on police not disclosing facts to the public and how the confessions can be contaminated through the police or expert evidence can all lead to false confessions (Garrett,