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- Title
Preventing False Confessions: Is Oickle Up to the Task?
- Authors
Ives, Dale E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issue of increasing number of false confessions by the suspects, resulting in wrongful convictions. It states that several studies in the U.S. have revealed the role of false confessions in wrongful convictions and are analyzing the factors responsible for the conviction. It mentions that personal traits of the suspect and the means of interrogation by the police forces an individual to fasely confess the crimes. It refers to R. v. Oickle, a Canada Supreme Court case that ruled a revision of the interrogation techniques producing false confessions. It mentions the reforms in the Canadian law related to confessions, which include videotaping of interrogation, and regulation of the means of interrogation.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; CONFESSION (Law); LAW; CRIMINAL convictions; POLICE questioning; LAW reform; VIDEO recording; CANADA. Supreme Court
- Publication
San Diego Law Review, 2007, Vol 44, Issue 3, p477
- ISSN
0036-4037
- Publication type
Article