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Confessions and almost half of them were under 21 years old. >> when you start looking at false confession cases, youre looking at interrogations that last 6 hours, 8 hours, 10, 12, 20 hours. people have a breaking point. >> no food. they kept repeating the same questions over and over again. they did wear me down. >> in 1989 jeffrey deskovic was 16 when he was questioned by peak skill new york police about the murder and rape of a classmate. hungry and alone for hours with detectives who made w...

Questioned by peak skill new york police about the murder of rape of a classmate. hungry and alone for hours with detectives who made what he says were false promises of freedom, he cracked. >> he added that if i did as they wanted that they would stop what theyre doing,ic go home afterwards and i made up a story based on information they gave me during the course of the interrogation. >> he was convicted and spent 16 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2006 based on a re-examination of ...