tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post3739417851355371018..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Anatomy of a false confessionGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-50863832378314807162014-04-29T12:53:27.743-05:002014-04-29T12:53:27.743-05:00Rodsmith, you would do well to read what was writt...Rodsmith, you would do well to read what was written instead of your emotionally based guesses. I clearly stated "without coercion" and as far as "real" evidence, a confession is about as real as it gets. They still investigate what was confessed to in order to corroborate details and the like but starting from scratch on the mere scintilla of a possibility that the one confessing is lying is crazy without real good reason.<br /><br />But go ahead and play keyboard warrior all you like. Big talk about assaulting detectives or "taking people out" because you feel oppressed at answering a few questions will not get you very far under the best of circumstances. <br /><br />I'm pretty sure you won't have a "2 second shot" in an interrogation room but on the off chance you get in that situation, by all means wave your weapon around while they take control of the situation since it will likely save us taxpayers a great deal of money. It's one thing to discuss improving how things are done and best possible practices but quite another to waste time on a troll. Bye!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-18771377653223545732014-04-29T12:53:03.207-05:002014-04-29T12:53:03.207-05:00Grits, thanks for the topic. While it's a norm...Grits, thanks for the topic. While it's a normal reaction to address R.S's. reaction he'd resort to, I'll remind everyone that the posting is about false confessions.(if you had been f'ed over by the cops you'd understand where he and the wronged community are coming from)<br /><br />The excerpt of the Austin Chronicle piece by Jordan Smith is devoid of Plea Bargains being associated with false confessions (unless I missed it, and it's in the link).<br /><br />Re: the Tim Cole Act and the requirement being ignored. Surely there are some GFB subscribers out there that are savy enough to create some Petitions aimed at getting the Lege to get it done. Before it gets too hot we could march on over to Austin in mass, if need be. Have pitch fork will travel. Thanks.Thomas R. Griffithhttp://www.projectnotguilty.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-40717829029588832112014-04-28T17:19:47.623-05:002014-04-28T17:19:47.623-05:00well 8:14 that depends on the person. If your fix...well 8:14 that depends on the person. If your fixing to destroy my live over something I haven't done. Just give me a 2 sec shot and guess what! even in a police interview your dead!<br /><br />if I am going it going to be for a real crime and I will take the one who started it with me!<br /><br /><br />yes actually I do expect them to investigate using REAL evidence not their preconceived bias. As for a confession you got after browbeating and lieing to someone over a 40-50 hour stretch. Sorry you don't deserve a pat on the back. More like a baseball bat to the head.rodsmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-63878045984459087732014-04-28T08:14:32.220-05:002014-04-28T08:14:32.220-05:00Rodsmith, while the bravado of your suggestion pro...Rodsmith, while the bravado of your suggestion probably appeals to the teenage boy in all of us, I doubt assaulting the officer will benefit you. I'm not saying he will pistol whip you or beat the living crap out of you, though that is apparently not completely unheard of, but when you get physical it invites him to do so as well. Guess who typically wins? Choose your battles.<br /><br />As far as false confessions are concerned, I suspect there is a lot more to the subject than what was posted. Reid technique or not, if a matter came to a jury in the first place, confessions typically tied to plea bargains and all, a defendant who admits to the crime and not just some small culpability for obscure reasons, is going to face an uphill climb even if he totally recants the confession. Sure, some tiny percentage of the population confessions to major crimes they could not have committed, but the body of work on the subject by mainstream shrinks do not support it being anywhere close to 25% of all confessions. Do you really think that an investigator, upon obtaining a valid confession without coercion, should have to reinvent the wheel by completely discounting the confession and independently investigate a complex case as though the confessor were 100% innocent? Good luck with that assertion barring substantial reason for doing so. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-74615099185474795712014-04-26T23:05:34.580-05:002014-04-26T23:05:34.580-05:00actualy the reid technique is easy to stop. Just ...actualy the reid technique is easy to stop. Just need to apply the proper technique.<br /><br />when in the interview room and the first cop get's in your face and starts screaming at you.<br />1. Inform screaming retard that is inpolite and illegal and he/she is to stop Now or face action.<br />2.reach up and grab neck.<br />3. pull down hard slamming screaming face into hard steel table.<br />4. screaming at you stops.<br />5. screaming for whole new reason begins.<br /><br />nobody in the world not even cops have the right to get in your face and scream at you and you have every legal right to stop it.<br />rodsmithnoreply@blogger.com