Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

False Confessions

By standdown

The topic of false confessions was front and center at today's meeting of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit.  The Integrity Unit was formed last year by Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey to examine widely acknowledged problems in the criminal justice system.Richard Leo, an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, an expert on false confessions, provided an overview of the problem and solutions.  He recommended that all custodial interrogations be recorded, thus creating an objective record of what happened.Leo outlined three distinct types of false confessions; voluntary, compliant, and persuaded.  He noted that false voluntary confessions are often seen, and generally weeded out, in high profile cases such as the JonBenet Ramsey case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).