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English
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"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. Includes his companion essay, 'Memories of My Grandmother'."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This conclusive and comprehensive book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men and women, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. Featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work done in tandem with the Innocence Project, and quotes from individuals who confessed to crimes they did not commit, Duped...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arrested for her murder. You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down. You've got nothing to do with this tragedy. You're clearly being framed. So why do the police keep picking holes in your story? Even your lawyer doesn't seem to believe you....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The Morrison brothers' plan to run their family's trucking business are thwarted when the bodies of their parents and younger brother are discovered dead, lying in pools of their own blood. As the facts fall into place, police are suspicious that one brother murdered them all. The other must make the decision to cooperate with the authorities and provoke a confession."--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Using actual case histories of innocent men and women exonerated after decades in prison because of information they voluntarily gave to police, Professor Duane demonstrates the critical importance of a constitutional right not well or widely understood by the average American. Reflecting the most recent attitudes of the Supreme Court, Professor Duane argues that it is now even easier for police to use your own words against you. This lively and...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man, and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice.
Chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court's enactment of...
17) Bi︠u︡ro proverki
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
"The new novel, Verification Bureau, is a detective story, a story of growing up, a portrait of an era, and the plot of today's contradictions. 1980 year. A mysterious telegram makes graduate student Alexei Nogovitsyn return from the construction team. The action of the novel takes only nine days, and everything fits in this short period: a love story with smart and tough girl Musya, religious throwing, watching forbidden films and interrogations...
Series
Fox film noir volume 18
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Somebody killed Vicky Lynn and the police are looking at only one suspect, promoter Frankie Christopher. Frankie believes Inspector Ed Cornell is trying to pin him for the murder of Vicky. Did he really kill her, or does he know who did?
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