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False Confessions

By Steve Hall

"Confessing to Crimes, but Innocent," is the title of an article in today's New York Times, highlighting scholarship by University of Virginia Law prof Brandon Garrett.  Here's the beginning:Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed. At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted only the rapist could have known, including the fact that the rapist hit the 75-year-old victim in the head with the handle of a silver table knife he found in the house. DNA evidence would later show that another man committed the crime. But that vindication would come only years after Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).