Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a ...

Richard A. Leo is a University of San Francisco law professor. But he is simultaneously respected and despised in cities across the United States. The strong reactions to Leo derive from his academic ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to have a state agency create standards for police interrogations. The issue came to light in 2022 when then Attorney General Mark Herring ...

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 ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on dozens of bills Wednesday, signing legislation that will allow to-go cocktails to continue and vetoing another measure intended to improve the integrity of police ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with investigative journalist Robert Kolker, whose article in Wired explores the new police interrogation technique called rapport-building. Police interrogations in this ...

Illinois police will have to record more interrogations of criminal suspects under legislation Gov. Pat Quinn signed Monday that aims to prevent false confessions and wrongful convictions. The law ...

POLICE INTERROGATIONS are by their very nature dramatic. The stakes are high. There is an imbalance of power. Those involved are under pressure. Narrative is essential to the proceedings: both the ...

THREE agonising months into the search to find Madeleine McCann, baffled Portuguese police had no leads, no evidence and not ...

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a 13-hour interrogation of an alcoholic murder suspect who was experiencing ...