Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

A suspect under police investigation for fraud overdosed on medication he was carrying while an investigator was temporarily ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. "The whole day it was like accusation after accusation," he says. "I kept ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on dozens of bills Wednesday, signing legislation that will allow to-go cocktails to continue and vetoing another measure intended to improve the integrity of police ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

A newly released police interrogation video and a stack of investigative files are giving the public its clearest look yet at the case surrounding Nikita Casap, the Waukesha teen who admitted earlier ...

"I was surprised that I was alive," said Tim Blake, who was shot 11 times. — -- In his chilling police interrogation, Billy Woodward described the moment he sneaked across his front lawn wearing ...

Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the... It's legal for police to use deception in ...