Here are a few paragraphs from a news article "Why Innocent People Confess"
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Every year, thousands of criminals are convicted on the basis of confessions obtained from police interrogations.
Experts say law enforcement interrogation techniques are so effective that they can break down the most hardened criminal and
even people who are innocent of the crime they are being accused of. Experts believe there have been
hundreds of cases where innocent men succumbed to interrogation and confessed to crimes they did not commit.
"You take
someone who is vulnerable, like a grieving family member or someone who isn't used to being confronted by police," says Rich Fallin, a former Maryland police officer who specialized in interrogations, "
If interrogated long enough, they'll probably confess."
Assuming Police Tell the Truth
During his interrogation, Gauger says, he kept denying any involvement with the murders. But he says police told him they had evidence. He mistakenly assumed police would not lie to him, an assumption often made by innocent people undergoing interrogation, according to experts.
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http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123938&page=1