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People often fold during an interrogation/questioning unless they are career criminals and have been through the system and learn from their prior mistakes/luck
by mc32 10mo ago
People often fold during an interrogation/questioning unless they are career criminals and have been through the system and learn from their prior mistakes/luck.
- BobaFloutist 10mo agoInnocent people often fold during interrogation.
- mc32 10mo agoSure, but in the 21st century people are typically not thrown in prison on the basis of a confession only. The prosecutors have to have corroborating evidence. We do have criminals who fold, either they're too confident, they trip up, etc. Recently some guy killed his sugar-momma in Fla, then took her car and drive it cross country to Seattle and along the way used her CC. He gave it all away in the jail interview.
- rectang 10mo agoIn the 21st century, innocent people routinely accept plea deals to avoid the risk of trial. The corroborating evidence need not be strong because the threat of the trial penalty is enough when you can't afford a good lawyer. https://innocenceproject.org/coerced-pleas/ https://innocenceproject.org/coerced-pleas/
- pixl97 10mo ago>The prosecutors have to have corroborating evidence. Bla bla bla, prosecutors are the good guys and show all the evidence they have.... Um, not. We keep finding again and again we're putting innocent people in jail even for things as serious as capital crimes, and later it was found the investigation was botched and there was no evidence that person was guilty and other evidence was never presented.
- naijaboiler 10mo agowrong. confession is the pimary way most people get convicted
- olalonde 10mo agoOr unless they exercise their right to remain silent.
- mothballed 10mo agoYes but if you do it wrong then your silence can be used against you. And if you ask for a lawyer slightly incorrectly then that doesn't count either.
- duskdozer 10mo agoWell, how exactly were they supposed to know he wanted a lawyer and not a lawyerdog, whatever that is? I don't even think that's a real thing! Clearly the suspect was crazy.