In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...

Leonard [email protected] YORK-When a beleaguered 13-year-old confessed to murder after hours of interrogation in a Mississippi sheriff's station in 2003, he had been isolated from his mother and had ...

Here's one from the annals of outrageous but true crime cases: On April 17, 1989, a woman was practicing tai chi in New York's Central Park, when a man sexually assaulted her. The rape was interrupted ...

And though Robinson's defense attorney might have found the witness to be helpful in building his case, an Armstrong County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled that allowing expert testimony about ...

WAUPACA, Wis. (WBAY) - Testimony continued on Monday, in a Waupaca County double homicide cold case with the defense raising questions about how police conducted an interrogation. The trial, which has ...

Both the defense and prosecution rested their cases Aug. 18 in Broome County Court following a six-day jury trial in the case against Jeremiah Raub. An expert in the study of false confessions, the ...

Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...