Innocent people are in jail because detectives tricked them.
By Saul Kassin
Dr. Kassin is a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who has studied false confessions for 40 years.
Jan. 29, 2021
Credit.Adam Maida
Most Americans donât know this, but police officers in the United States are permitted by law to outright lie about evidence to suspects they interrogate in pursuit of a confession. Of all forms of subterfuge they deploy â like feigning sympathy and suggesting that a suspectâs confession might bring leniency â this one is particularly dangerous.
In Frazier v. Cupp (1969), the Supreme Court made it lawful for the police to present false evidence. âThe victimâs blood was found on your pillow,â âYou failed the polygraph,â âYour fingerprints were on the knifeâ and âYour friend said she wasnât with you like you saidâ are some common but brazen lies told. There is almost no limit to
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix paid fake heiress Anna Sorokin $320,000 for its show about her, and she s already used the money to pay off her victims
INSIDER 1/29/2021 jshamsian@insider.com (Jacob Shamsian) © Provided by INSIDER Anna Sorokin, who claimed to be a German heiress named Anna Delvey, in court during her 2019 trial in New York. Mary Altaffer/AP
Netflix paid Anna Sorokin, who posed as a German heiress named Anna Delvey, $320,000 for the rights to her life story.
She s already paid out almost all that money for restitution, fines, and attorney fees.
Sorokin s lawyer told Insider she was appealing her case to clear her name but still wanted to pay everyone she owed.
It is still unclear whether they broke the law or whether they participated in the insurrection.
Still, alarm bells are going off for some people in the city.
âWhat more can we do to help understand how deep the iceberg really is here?â asked Douglas Wagoner, a member of the Community Police Commission, a citizen advisory group which discussed the matter in a Zoom meeting.
âI can t think of anything that s more problematic for trust,â he said, âespecially at this already tenuous moment, than to find out that there are potential officers potentially involved in this attempted coup.â
Another member of the group, a Black officer named Mark Mullens, talked about colleagues who ve worn MAGA hats to the precinct.