Ten years ago, the Massachusetts high court declared that it was dissatisfied with hearing “repeated pronouncements” about the benefits of recording stationhouse interrogations of suspects while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on dozens of bills Wednesday, signing legislation that will allow to-go cocktails to continue and vetoing another measure intended to improve the integrity of police ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

The Montgomery County legislator who proposed requiring police statewide to videotape interrogations has withdrawn his bill while Maryland's Police Training Commission develops guidelines for ...

It’s probably a surprise to most people that the law does not require recorded interrogations of people suspected of serious crimes. A muddled homicide case in Scranton demonstrates why that should ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to have a state agency create standards for police interrogations. The issue came to light in 2022 when then Attorney General Mark Herring ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with investigative journalist Robert Kolker, whose article in Wired explores the new police interrogation technique called rapport-building. Police interrogations in this ...

There was a time when false confessions were thought to be entirely fictional. DNA testing has taught us that they’re more common than we think. It isn’t that people are rushing to confess to crimes ...