The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a 13-hour interrogation of an alcoholic murder suspect who was experiencing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis speaks during a news conference at City Hall on Monday about the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders.

In March of 1995, Chicago police arrested four Black teenagers from the neighborhood of Englewood and accused them of the rape and murder of a local sex worker. After hours of interrogation, police ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Most people do not feel free to leave a police interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, a recently published study from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...