Alaska

A judge has ruled my testimony admissible for a forthcoming trial in Alaska.  This marks the 21st jurisdiction in which I’ve been qualified as a false confessions expert.  Courts around the country increasingly permit expert testimony to inform the jurors about the counter-intuitive phenomenon of false confessions.

Englewood Four

The notorious case of the Englewood Four in Chicago has been in the news again, as more evidence of prosecutorial corruption has emerged.  What a tragic case — four teenagers coerced into false confessions spent 15 years incarcerated before being exonerated by DNA.