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"Once the false confession is made, a tide forms to take the case to conviction."

You might think false confessions are impossible, but attorney Ronald Goldfarb argues that "an expert on false confessions pointed out that prisoners of war as well as common criminal suspects confess to crimes they didn’t commit after stressful, prolonged, deceitful interrogation." The solution? Record police interrogations. Assure better defense lawyers for criminal defendants.