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The Case of False Confessions - Origin Story
📻 Episode #115
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 19, 2020
About This Episode
Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t commit?
The Case
Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t commit?
Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and central figures in the smash hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, introduce themselves, their work, their passion, and the origin story behind their tireless efforts to free the wrongfully convicted.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:02:53“Speaker 2: But most of today's modern psychological interrogation techniques are all Speaker 2: about talking words, and so the job of the lawyer Speaker 2: or the expert is to try to explain the psychology Speaker 2: of interrogations to lay people, to bring them inside the Speaker 2: interrogation room so that they can feel the same pressure”
00:12:47“Speaker 1: things like, look, there are two kinds of people in Speaker 1: this world. There's someone who would commit a horrible crime Speaker 1: like this one. Maybe someone who's done this before and Speaker 1: is going to go do it again, right, real monster. Speaker 1: We all know what happens to people like that. They're”
00:20:58“Speaker 2: To write about them and then to speak publicly and Speaker 2: to spread this knowledge around as much as possible. And Speaker 2: that's what I've been doing for the past twenty or Speaker 2: twenty five years, and that's what Lara has been doing Speaker 2: since she's been involved in this work.”
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