In trials with multiple defendants, this complicates the introduction of a confession by a non-testifying defendant that incriminates a co-defendant. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear argument ...

The Supreme Court on Friday decided Samia v. United States, making it easier for the government to introduce confessions in criminal trials involving multiple defendants. In civil and criminal trials ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is being asked to let prosecutors use a controversial confession as evidence in a murder case featured in the Netflix series, "The Innocent Man." Karl Allen ...

New Principle. The confession problem stems from the court’s own decision last June in Escobedo v. Illinois, which voided a Chicago murder confession because the police had refused to let the ...

And each time, the suspects were pressured into giving confessions that courts later found to be false. Rosario spent 32 years in prison before his exoneration in 2017 and Gutierrez was cleared in ...