Get your asbestos underwear on because the “COPS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT!!!” crowd will be along any moment now to start calling you names because you dare to insiunate that their infallible heroes in black tactical gear would do anything wrong.
Watch old episodes of The Closer
Get my lawyer.
Yes, the standard police strategy for obtaining confessions is basically a recipe for obtaining false confessions as well.
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Sixteen hours of interrogation might have something to do with it, genius.
Or watch “Making a Murderer”, and see what they cops did to Brendan Dassey.
Interesting read but why do I get the feeling the whole article was to take a shot at Trump?
The pilot episode of Kojak “The Marcus-Nelson Murders” dealt with the premise in 1973.
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In 1999, the Washington police department arrested one Carl Cooper for the killings. The Feds sought the death penalty even though the District of Columbia had repealed capital punishment. There are numerous homicides in DC, yet the Feds were considering overriding the District law in this case. Cooper plea bargained the charges to life imprisonment.
Keep in mind the murders occurred during the period of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Paula Jones lawsuit. Mary Mahoney was a lesbian activist, so unlike with Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton may not have been the predator. Hillary Clinton's sexual preferences are, shall we say, dubious based on anecdotal evidence.
It is probable Carl Cooper was set up to take the fall in the Starbucks murders. If the author helped frame him by obtaining a false, and perhaps coerced, confession, he is guilty of the tactics he reports on. There were no witnesses or forensic evidence tying the killings to a gun Cooper owned or possessed.
I don’t get “8. Have them provide details of the crime.”
How is that possible if they didn’t do it?
I’m all for videotaping the entire confession process, although I would argue the admissability may vary. I would never say a damned thing without a lawyer present and a tape running.
Here’s what they don’t tell you: It says 15% of false convictions involve confessions. Well, 90% of all trials end in a plea. A plea includes a confession. A LOT of criminals plea to one crime to stay out of a trial over another crime, and that’s going to lead to a LOT of false confessions. But that doesn’t mean the defendant is innocent. So that stat doesn’t really impress me. And how many times does “false confession” mean the confession was proven to be false, versus simply on a re-hearing, with newly excluded evidence, a jury failed to reach a verdict?
Also, James Trainum is not only selling his book, but also his interrogation consulting services. Let that sink in.
As for PEACE, what the article neglects to mention is that in the U.K., there is no right against self-incrimination. Failure to cooperate fully can lead to a presumption of guilt.
Know what? If I’m on a jury and a defendant told me he made a false confession because he was told he was going to get life or the death penalty, and was promised he could get plea out for 3rd-degree manslaughter, I’m open to his claim.
That guy has a book out now, “You Have The Right To Remain Innocent”. I’ll give away a spoiler he teases in one of his videos:
One of the tricks the cops use is to phrase a statement or a question so that you make an assumption from it that is correct 99.9% of the time. Then they say, aha!, we never actually told him that! Only the murderer would know that!
They pull this a lot on murder cases. The community has been beating the bushes for a week, divers have been in the town lake for the last three days, the candlelight vigil has been held, but let the spouse speak of the deceased in the past tense one time, and aha!, we never said we were certain his wife was dead!
Chicagoland had 2 concurrent textbook cases. Dem States Atty framed the Chicago Heigts 7 in Crook County and GOP establishment States Atty Jim Ryan (no relation to the other GOP Ryans) in Dupage County.
Jim Ryan&Co frequently paid a snitch Rolando Cruz, a petty thief, pothead and embarrassment to the human race. But Cruz was not a murderer. Cruz was also a pathetic liar. He was no good on the witness stand pointing at the defendant.
And Jim Ryan had a murder of a little girl he had to solve before election day to prove that an establishment haack was a law-n-order conservative. So he conveniently framed Rolando Cruz, knowing Cruz wais a pathetic liar and would be easy to convict.
Lesson: It’s always smart for an ambitious person to have a fall guy, a scapegoat, close at hand. And pick someone who can’t mount a good defense. <;)>