Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana police. He was released after his father showed up alive and well. (Allen J ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. "The whole day it was like accusation after accusation," he says. "I kept ...

NEW YORK — During police investigations, interrogations -- the formal questioning of a potential suspect -- are critical and can lead to a big break in the case. Historically, investigators have been ...

Advocates for the wrongfully accused asked state lawmakers Wednesday to support new measures to regulate crime labs and require electronic taping of police interrogations of suspects. “There are ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

In a rare rejection of a bill recommended by a Senate committee, the Maryland Senate Friday defeated a bill that would have required police investigators to videotape interrogations of murder suspects ...

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