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    Is it true that 25 percent of inmates released from US prisons because DNA evidence had overturned their convictions had made a full confession of their crimes before incarceration?

    Question #123230. Asked by unclerick. (Aug 23 11 9:19 PM)


    houston1127

    		Mostly correct.

    According to the Innocence Project, the 25% figure includes not just convictions where the defendent confessed, but also those where the defendent made incriminating statements or pled guilty.

    Reasons for false confessions include: duress, coercion, intoxication, diminished capacity, mental impairment, ignorance of the law, fear of violence, the actual infliction of harm, the threat of a harsh sentence, and misunderstanding the situation.


    http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php

    Aug 24 11, 12:41 AM

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