Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorney Eric Vernon represented Smithville’s Lori Ackerman, who was charged with murder in Clay County. Ackerman was acquitted by ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A federal lawsuit filed a year after her release claims the St. Joseph Police Department coerced a false confession out of Sandra Hemme, leading to her wrongful imprisonment.

Two men who were sent to prison for decades at 17 years old after NYPD officers pushed them to serve up false murder confessions saw their names cleared in Manhattan on Thursday. Brian Boles and ...

Believe it or not, innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit – as did yogurt shop murder defendant Michael Scott, says lawyer, sociologist, and University of San Francisco professor ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has cleared the way for a retrial to go forward after all in an infamous 1984 murder case ...

According to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), those who are sleep-deprived are 4.5 times as likely as their well-rested counterparts to ...

March 29, 2006 — -- Theresa Fusco, a 16-year-old who aspired to be a ballerina, was last seen in November 1984, leaving her job at a Long Island roller-skating rink. Her disappearance hit the ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

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