Why Do Innocent People Confess?

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2. Yep, scarey stuff

In my neck of the woods the SCPD coerced a young 19 yo boy into a confession of killing his parents, despite a ton of evidence that the dad's business partner did the deed. He spent 20 years in prison and then was let go (a few years ago) when more evidence came to light. The boy was Martin Tankleff.

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/martin_tankleff/index.html

Really goes to show that confessions are meaningless (and torture will give you all sorts of false info).