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FALSE CONFESSIONS AND WHAT NOT TO SAY AT SENTENCING

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

To our dear state court robed readers, please, in all seriousness, if you read anything this week, read this NY Times articles on False Confessions, here. It's too important a subject for a judge to not educate himself or herself on. The chances are that a case of this nature will cross a judge's docket and the chances are very high that if even half the judges of the REGJB read this article, they already have a case in front of them in which the confession is suspect at best. This is not some defense attorney clap trap. False confessions are all too real. In a perfect world the State Attorney will have read this article and distributed it to her staff ....but that's in a perfect world. (And if our judicial readers need a laugh, scroll down to the federal sentencing bit...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).