The Consequences Of False Confession

When an individual is place under stress it's harder for them to remember or recall the previous event that occurred. For example, if someone hears a gun sound their first typical reaction is to look for where the gun sound is, then to look for shelter. And alarming situation such as an assault, murder, rape, or robbery will make it much challenging for witness to identify the perpetrator. To those who follow crimes and court, the stories are familiar and formidable. Lewis Fogle spent more than 34 years imprisoned in Indiana for a 1982 rape he did not commit largely due to a single perjury and false accusation. He was later freed in 2015. A horrible number of these cases involved false confession given by the innocence defendant during the
There is shown to be no single cause of false confession, and these is no single logic or type of false confession (Leo). Thirty-eight percent of exoneration of exonerations for crimes allegedly committed by youth under the age of 18 years (Loevy). The real question is why would anyone confess to a crime they did not commit. Maybe it’s because of the way police ask the question. Question can last up to 12 hours, leaving the person very scared to admit the crime. False Confession can lead into a person being pressure to doing something. If there’s evidence of a false confession that has been access using cognitive pressure by the police (Leo). There are three types of confession that occurs when interrogating someone for a long period. The first confession is a Voluntary false confession; a voluntary false confession is the result of the person wanting to become famous. Which scientists has come to say that these kinds of false confessions are prompted by a pathological desire for notoriety, which means they are the result of some mentally disturbed condition. The second type of confession is Compliant Confession; the person confesses because they see confessing as the only way out of the situation they