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The Case of Junk Science - Coerced Confession Evidence
📻 Episode #165
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 21, 2020
About This Episode
Josh Dubin does a deep dive into the psychology behind Coerced Confession Evidence with David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and co-host of the podcast Abuse of Power.
The Case
Josh Dubin does a deep dive into the psychology behind Coerced Confession Evidence with David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and co-host of the podcast Abuse of Power.
It turns out tactics used to extract Coerced Confessions are also rooted in Junk Science. Just like Bite Mark Evidence, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, and so many others covered in this show, Coerced, or False Confessions are another link in the chain of the Junk Science epidemic.
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00:05:12“Speaker 1: She says, hate to say it, but I did see Speaker 1: you hit the alt key. The professor storms over to Speaker 1: his seat and starts writing furiously on his pad of paper. Speaker 1: You're confused, and you feel really bad like you've messed Speaker 1: up the whole experiment. You didn't mean to. You thought”
00:20:39“Speaker 3: So there's all these sort of preconceptions, and then the Speaker 3: arrogance is that they know because they've done it so Speaker 3: many times. And you know, part of what we ought Speaker 3: to recognize here is that when you're doing that, you're Speaker 3: obviously already thinking the person's guilty, and so confirmation bias”
00:34:41“Speaker 1: I think certain law enforcement officials in this country might Speaker 1: resist that because they'll think, well, if we don't use this, Speaker 1: then we are losing this critical tool for getting suspects Speaker 1: to confess. And if we don't have this, then we're Speaker 1: not going to be able to convict someone who who”
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Also on the podcast: #145 Junk Science - Bite Mark Evidence · #147 Junk Science - Bloodstain Pattern Evidence · #149 Junk Science - Arson Evidence