No, the best way to explain it is that he was a teenager making a compliant false confession after being left alone with the police for about four hours. The resulting statement is such a load of bollocks he should have been let go then. Instead he was kept and questioned for another 8 hours till they could finally manage to get a statement which sounded accurate-ish enough to get arrest warrants.
What about Joshua Treadway? Marty Tanklieff? Peter Reilly? The Central Park Five?
Jessie's post conviction confessions were an obvious attempt to try and get his sentence cut. Luckily for Michael Crowe, his local police department weren't inefficient enough to lose evidence which pointed towards someone else, so that case never got far enough for either Michael or Joshua to be faced with the temptation Jessie was faced with.
Jessie's first confession was completed at 3:18, and he was offered food (declined) and cigarettes. He was not held and questioned for an additional 8 hours. He was offered food again before 6 and fed dinner around 6. The probable cause hearing was at 9, but he wasn't being questioned that entire time.
I've never said that false confessions are never made. The reasons that I don't think Jessie gave a false confession- 1. he included unsolicited and inflammatory details 2. he made repeated confessions to multiple people, in different places, at different times 3. No compelling evidence tying anyone else to the crime. Not just one reason, all of those reasons. I don't have time to research all of the cases you posted right now, but I seriously doubt that any of them meet that criteria.
Nothing was said during Jessie's post-conviction confessions that would give him any reason to believe that confessing would get his sentence cut. His lawyers repeatedly told him that it was against his advice, that they had new evidence, and would present it to the judge and that the judge would grant him a new trial. The prosecutor said very clearly that he was not being promised anything, there was no deal. I guess that is why his IQ becomes so important to supporters--- if you didn't believe that he was retarded, you probably wouldn't be able to believe that that confession was false.