There are few issues in the United States that divide public opinion like the death penalty. Whether you are in favor of capital punishment you should agree that it applies only to the guilty. Nothing ...

An analyst who reviewed police interviews of two witnesses who have testified against Brooks Houck told jurors Friday that the police used highly coercive tactics that affected the quality of ...

Police often deceive people they question — for example, lying about having DNA evidence that incriminates them. Officers’ goals are to persuade guilty people to confess, but such tactics can pressure ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (Nov. 17, 2025) – Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research.

An interrogation is not a harmonious exchange between two individuals. It’s a conflict. And in this conflict, our ignorance is our strength. Ignorance of the meaning of police work, ignorance of the ...

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) ...

The state Supreme Court has announced it will consider whether police violated the rights of a defendant by using incriminating statements made after a detective said, “Nobody’s using anything in ...

A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant's 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child. A passage from Sgt. Kroll Goes to the Office (2006), published ...

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