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PBS Frontline to Examine Norfolk Four Case

By Steve Hall

The PBS documentary, which premiered this season with an examination of the Todd Willingham case, takes up another controversial case, that of the Norfolk Four in Virginia. Tomorrow night's program is, "The Confessions."  Check your local PBS affiliate for the time in your locale. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn?t commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997. In interviews with the sailors, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques -- including the threat of the death penalty, sleep deprivation, and intimidation -- that led each of the ?Norfolk Four? to confess, despite a lack of evidence linking them to the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 08, 2010 (boomark / email).