Cuyamaca College Huwe Burton False Confession Discussion

I’m working on a science writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

For your oral presentation, you will apply these to a specific legal case which included a false confession.It must be a real case, which you can find through either the legal literature or from the popular media (newspaper story, news website, Innocence Project website, Wikipedia, etc.). The false confession must now be known to be false, but it doesn’t matter whether the confession was initially accepted by the jury/judge, and it doesn’t matter whether the suspect who made the false confession was found guilty or not, and it doesn’t matter what happened afterwards (exoneration, retrial, pardon, etc.).

For your presentation, you will need to:

• Explain the facts of the case (what was the crime, how was the suspect found, etc.)
• Describe the false confession (what the suspect confessed to having done)
• Explain how we now know that the confession was false, in whole or in part
• Given the facts of the interrogation and confession, describe the psychological processes that might have influenced this particular confession by this specific suspect (based on the textbook and journal article