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The Case of Junk Science - Coerced Confession Evidence
📻 Episode #404
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 06, 2023
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.
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
http://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
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00:05:08“Speaker 2: the keyboard. The professor says, let's get ready and begin. Speaker 2: The student next to you starts reading off letters B, A, J, B, T, Speaker 2: S K. The letters come quickly, but you keep up. Speaker 2: You think of this as a game, and you want”
00:21:39“Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. They think this is their guy, Speaker 2: and they bring that person in for questioning. And they're Speaker 2: not simply trying to find out the truth, right, They're Speaker 2: sole objective when they employ this technique is to get Speaker 4: Absolutely. It's intuition plus arrogance. You know that. That's my”
00:35:41“Speaker 4: yeah or mm hm, and those then get incorporated into Speaker 4: a written statement. And you've already gone so far as Speaker 4: to say all this, so you figure, what the hell, Speaker 4: I'll sign it, and then your life is over. Speaker 2: So, David, what can we do here? The system keeps”
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