Sep 11, 2025
Guilty pleas and plea bargaining are often cited as being necessary for our criminal justice system to work properly and in a timely fashion. In fact, the vast majority of cases brought to trial end in plea bargains. Some estimates put that number as high as 95% of...
Sep 11, 2025
A “Mr. Big” sting is a controversial undercover operation developed in Canada during the 1990’s that has been shown to lead to false confessions in numerous cases. Police officers spend weeks and months undercover learning as much as they can about their suspect....
Sep 11, 2025
A confession is seen to be very powerful evidence of guilt, which is why false confessions can easily lead to wrongful convictions. People are unwilling to believe that someone would confess to a crime they did not commit. The result of vast psychological and legal...
Sep 11, 2025
Eyewitness identification error is a major contributor to wrongful convictions. Eyewitness evidence can be unreliable for many reasons such as stress, emotions, lighting and distance issues, and memory recall. Memory is also subject to manipulation and can be...
