Why #FalseConfessions Are Surprisingly Common | Psychology Today
They are also preventable!
- Record interviews & #interrogations
- Ban #FalseEvidencePloys & deceptive practices
- Evolve to science-based methods of #EffectiveInterviewing
#MéndezPrinciples
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ICE went on a hiring spree. Sterling credentials were not required, AP investigation finds
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Others on the defense list include political, intel and military figures from the time of the Cole bombing, Oct. 12, 2000, on whether the US was already at war with Al Qaeda.
Some US citizens might require court orders and might invoke privilege to resist; Yemenis who could just ignore the judge.
One witness sought by defenders is called Medical Provider No. 2. That person, according to a defense lawyer, has first-hand knowledge about the CIA's use of a condemned procedure on the defendant -- as explained by an expert earlier in these hearings. www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/u...
Good afternoon. I have been watching pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case at Guantanamo Bay in a video feed to a Pentagon viewing room. The judge has been hearing about would-be trial witnesses, specifically people the defense teams want and prosecutors do not.
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--Talks are underway again to settle the case, Ms. Miller says. The office of the Pentagon’s Deputy Secretary has been spelling out the specific clauses that caused him to reject a plea deal to cap punishment at life in prison.
Capt. Stinson: Not our lane. That can move on a separate track.
Defender Miller also said a recent government notice requires a trip or two to Saudi Arabia, which takes time to arrange and may be foreclosed by the Iran war: Prosecutors plan remote testimony from a Saudi convict whose earlier deposition was tossed due to judicial misconduct.
This guy:
--Ms. Miller says defense lawyers and the judge have learned late, from prosecutors, that hearsay evidence from a former prisoner that could help their case was “torture borne,” unlawful to use.
Capt. Stinson, prosecutor: We’ll stipulate that the witness would have said the same things in court.
Court is in a lunch recess, and the feed has been fine all morning. The defense lawyer for the man accused of plotting the USS Cole bombing off Yemen in 2000 cited many reasons for the delay.
Here are a few and the government’s response:
If that date sounds familiar, here’s why: That’s when prosecutors in the war court’s other and best known capital case want to start their trial at Guantánamo Bay. The judge in that case will hear argument on the request next month.
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Good afternoon from the Pentagon conference center where I have been watching pretrial proceedings in the USS Cole case that began this morning at Guantanamo Bay.
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The lawsuit names former detective Richard Zuley, who's been cited in other allegations of misconduct, and also was accused of torturing terrorism suspects at #Guantanamo Bay after the 9/11 attacks.
#LeavingHotelCalifornia
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Viktor Orbán, the longest-serving Prime Minister in the European Union, pioneered a system of legalized autocracy that became a model for aspiring strongmen all over the world, including Donald Trump. On Sunday, Orbán was voted out of office. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Mbyufm
A federal judge has found that an interim Department of Defense policy — which replaced a similar policy that sought to restrict journalists’ access to Pentagon sources earlier this year — violates First Amendment press freedoms and is therefore unlawful and unenforceable.
We filed a notice in federal court that officers at Florida's “Alligator Alcatraz” are failing to comply with a court order to give people access to attorneys.
Guards cut off phone access for a day without warning and brutally beat and pepper sprayed people who spoke up.
This can't continue.
Trump’s odious threats to erase Iranian civilization & Hegseth’s bloodthirsty remarks, including a threat to offer “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” would be war crimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...
The Trump administration wants to imprison Cuban migrants attempting to flee the humanitarian crisis it created by putting them in a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay.
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Amid the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on Cuba, officials have said that in the case of mass emigration, Cubans may be held at Guantánamo. The problems there are not only legal or moral — Guantánamo is structurally incapable of holding any number of people humanely.
Human Rights Groups Denounce Trump Plans to Send Cubans Fleeing Impacts of Blockade to Guantánamo
“The continued use of Guantánamo Bay, which has an extensive history of abuse and torture, is horrific and unconscionable."
Judge says Navy must release records related to sailor acquitted of USS Bonhomme Richard arson www.courthousenews.com/judge-says-n...
"Even Trump is vulnerable to prosecution, but after the supreme court’s deplorable ruling, not in the United States," writes @kennethroth.bsky.social.
The dark side of music as ‘therapy’
Music was used as a form of #torture in #Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 and by the Nazis, who forced musical prisoners to entertain their captors while they starved and awaited death.
#LeavingHotelCalifornia
#TruthMatters
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Currently, 15 men remain as prisoners in #Guantanamo, detained in conditions described by a former UN special rapporteur as “ongoing cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment…and may also meet the legal threshold for #torture.”
#LeavingHotelCalifornia
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This is absolutely black and white - the US president is ordering war crimes and crimes and humanity.
Using or threatening violence against civilians to achieve political ends is the very definition of terrorism. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I really hope this is right, but having studied the lack of accountability for decades of CIA torture, I remain skeptical. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
