A sobering factoid : Cook County itself has had 92 known exonerations since 1989 – far more than any other county in the country — and, as we saw in 2001,

A sobering factoid : Cook County itself has had 92 known exonerations since 1989 – far more than any other county in the country — and, as we saw in 2001, it has a special affinity for false confessions. Nearly 40 percent of Cook County exonerations involved false confessions by the exonerated defendants (35 of 92), and an additional 16 percent were based on false confessions by codefendants. Can we start prohibiting confessions from admissible evidence now? I don't care how convincing the story is, unless the confession itself can lead to actual physical evidence, it should be completely discounted. Meanwhile, the prosecutor and the detectives involved are not charged with conspiracy.