It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
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