Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

[This story is part of a series focusing on false confessions and filming interrogations published by Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. Read other stories in the series here.] NEW YORK —The New ...

These facts are indisputable: (1) police interrogate people they think committed crimes and (2) as a result of the methods of interrogation, sometimes innocent people falsely confess to crimes they ...

When Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he authored a law that required the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in capital cases. In the last few years, the support for that ...

New legislation in Springfield backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker would require a lawyer for young people under 18 during a police interrogation — an expansion of juvenile rights that comes in response to ...

NEW YORK — During police investigations, interrogations -- the formal questioning of a potential suspect -- are critical and can lead to a big break in the case. Historically, investigators have been ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed the nation's first law prohibiting police from lying to juveniles during criminal interrogations. The measure, which is intended to ...

Did you know that police are legally allowed to lie to suspects when interrogating them? Many people don’t. Did you know that police can also lie to kids? Most parents don’t. Yet deception is a ...

Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had been found. Thomas Perez Sr., they told his son, was dead. The ...