False confession
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A false confession is an admission of guilt in a crime in which the confessor is not responsible for the crime. False confessions can be induced through coercion or by the mental disorder or incompetency of the accused. Even though false confessions might appear to be an exceptional and unlikely event, they occur on a regular basis in case law, which is one of the reasons why jurisprudence has established a series of rules to detect, and subsequently reject, false confessions. These are called the "confession rules." Plea agreements typically require the defendant to stipulate to a set of facts establishing he/she is guilty of the offense; in the United States federal system, before entering judgment on a guilty plea, the court must determine that there is a factual basis for the plea.
See also
- Trisha Meili
- Gudjonsson suggestibility scale
- False memory syndrome
- False evidence
- Fingerprint
- Miscarriage of justice
- Police misconduct
- Reid technique
- Timothy Evans
- Martin Tankleff
- Iatrogenesis
- Forced confession