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Honesty Without Truth: Lies, Accuracy, And The Criminal Justice Process, Lisa Kern Griffin
Honesty Without Truth: Lies, Accuracy, And The Criminal Justice Process, Lisa Kern Griffin
Faculty Scholarship
Focusing on “lying” is a natural response to uncertainty but too narrow of a concern. Honesty and truth are not the same thing and conflating them can actually inhibit accuracy. In several settings across investigations and trials, the criminal justice system elevates compliant statements, misguided beliefs, and confident opinions while excluding more complex evidence. Error often results. Some interrogation techniques, for example, privilege cooperation over information. Those interactions can yield incomplete or false statements, confessions, and even guilty pleas. Because of the impeachment rules that purportedly prevent perjury, the most knowledgeable witnesses may be precluded from taking the stand. The …
Robert Mcnamara And The Art And Law Of Confession: “A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert Mcnamara’D Into Submission)”, Robert N. Strassfeld
Robert Mcnamara And The Art And Law Of Confession: “A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert Mcnamara’D Into Submission)”, Robert N. Strassfeld
Duke Law Journal
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Confessions Induced By Broken Government Promises, Welsh S. White
Confessions Induced By Broken Government Promises, Welsh S. White
Duke Law Journal
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Other Answers: Search And Seizure, Coerced Confession And Criminal Trial In Scotland, Paul Hardin Iii
Other Answers: Search And Seizure, Coerced Confession And Criminal Trial In Scotland, Paul Hardin Iii
Faculty Scholarship
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