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God, this makes me so sad. Being persuaded into admitting guilt to a crime that you have no idea about sounds bizaare but I am sure this case wasn't the last.
by stuart_v 12y ago
God, this makes me so sad. Being persuaded into admitting guilt to a crime that you have no idea about sounds bizaare but I am sure this case wasn't the last.
- Sharlin 12y agoWell, probably not all that rare in the US, for example, due to the abuse of the plea bargain system.
- tripzilch 12y agoThat's the weirdest thing about US police series. When I was younger, I never really believed that sort of thing actually happens for real, just thought it was an over-used fictional "cleverness" trope. I mean it's so obvious this is going to lead to abuse and false confessions if actually used for real-life confessions, I figured it had to, because in a TV-series you can assume that the police are the smart/good guys so they could safely use this clever (if somewhat unfair) trick to get the (obvious) bad guys. As I got older, and perhaps as the themes in TV series got a little more complex, I started wondering sometimes, how are these even the good guys? For all they know they are now convicting an innocent man or woman, by pressuring them into confessing to a crime with the only leverage being "an offer they can't refuse" (a much larger sentence).
- arethuza 12y agoAt roughly the same time in the UK there were the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seve...