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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
It's not as simple as that...eye witness testimony is the most unreliable form of testimony there is...there are corrupt police officers and when I say corrupt they are willing to close out a case at all costs and even ignore evidence to the contrary.
Not all "admissions of guilt" are 100% reliable...there is coersion on the part of some police officers etc.
One famous case involves a young black boy in Flordia.
I don't recall the name of the documentary but it was nominated for an academy award for best documentary feature.
Anyway the police had a "confession" the young boy admitted to the crime, however he testified later in court that it was only because the officer took him into the woods and frightened him as well as toyed with his gun in the interrogation room while interviewing him.
The officer of course denied all of this...but guess what?
They found the real criminal later with the real criminals fingerprints on the purse of the lady who was murdered.
This young boy was about to spend the rest of his life in prison or be summarily executed because the police officers had a "confession."
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Another case of a confession. The police convinced a somewhat slow minded 18 year old (through many hours of interrogation) that he must of killed his mother, so he agreed to sign a confession that they had prepared. Keep in mind that he was fully convinced by the police that he in fact had killed his mother. He felt terrible because he dearly loved his mother. He was tried and convicted and was sentenced to life in prison (with him believing that he belonged in prsion). Somewhere along the line the real murdererer was caught and at some point the boy, that was convinced by the police that he had killed his mother, was released from prison.