Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
by frandroid on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:16PM
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We're talking about legal contexts here. Almost no one, unless coerced/brutalized by police/DAs, admits to crimes they did not commit. And the you have the thing where you can verify their admission of guilt with corroborating details.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
by rdtsc on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:25PM
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There have many many many cases of individuals getting behind bars because they have been coerced to plead guilty and confess to crimes that they never committed.
"unless coerced/brutalized by police/DAs" is not really exceptional, once in a decade, type case, sadly it is rather routine.
Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:30PM
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I know personally a person who plea-bargained, which means admitting to a crime they didn't commit, because the likelihood of being convicted (and the penalty of conviction) was so great a threat. He pled to a lesser crime (that he also didn't commit) and served 5 years.
Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
by alchemism on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:44PM
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Sadly, there is a systematic problem in which many must plead guilty because they will be punished beyond measure if they do not. It is structural and endemic in American justice:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-inn...
(EDIT: And this one) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.htm...