456: Laura Nirider | Anatomy of a False Confession
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Laura Nirider (@LauraNirider) is the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and the co-host of the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions podcast.
What We Discuss with Laura Nirider:- Two to five percent of people currently serving time in prison have been falsely convicted.
- False confessions and admissions are present in 15 to 20 percent of all DNA exonerations.
- The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows police to lie about evidence during interrogations.
- Why so many people are coerced into providing false confessions during interrogations that are gentle compared to the more "hands on" approach taken by police in decades past.
- How Laura is working to clean up interrogation techniques so they're still effective in solving crimes without trapping innocent people in the system.
- And much more...
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| 1:27.4 | get started and I always appreciate it. And today, my friend Laura Nyrider is with us. |
| 1:33.7 | She runs the Northwestern University Center for Rungful Convictions. If you've seen |
| 1:38.0 | making a murderer you know about Brendan Dassy, that's one of her clients. She is his attorney. |
| 1:43.1 | He was the young guy who I think was like 16 years old and was essentially badgered by |
| 1:47.8 | interrogators into confessing something he could not possibly have done, namely a murder. |
| 1:52.3 | Now why would someone admit to a crime especially a murder that they didn't commit? |
| 1:57.0 | Today we'll examine the mechanics of a false confession. How often does this happen? |
| 2:02.2 | How does this happen at all? What's the psychology behind this? What's going on at work here |
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