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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by rdtsc on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:25PM (#10466685)
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.

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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:30PM (#10466729)
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.
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