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Why Innocent Suspects Sometimes Confess To A Crime
February 21, 2011 by NewsBot
Why would anyone falsely confess to a crime they didn't commit? It seems illogical, but according to The Innocence Project, there have been 266 post-conviction DNA exonerations since 1989 - 25 percent of which involved a false confession. A new Iowa State University study may shed light on one reason for those false confessions...


