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What do I do if I admitted I committed a crime to the police?

By Walin & Klarich

Admitting you committed a crime to the police is obviously not an intelligent decision. Often times, people will confess their crimes because they feel bad about what they did, because they think there is no way they can disprove their case, or because they simply just gave up. Later, these people will gravely regret their decisions, and wonder if there is anything they can do about it. As an experienced Orange County criminal defense attorney, the answer is a resounding yes. Police have historically been known to use subversive and abusive techniques to extract confessions out of suspected offenders. What these are referred to as in the legal community are ?coerced confession.? Normally, the word coerced tends to give the image that the police were physically threatening a person, or someone else, and that they used this threat to get the confession...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).