False Confessions

False Confession occur more frequently than we Think!

Attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld initiated the Innocence Project in 1992 to exonerate innocent people through DNA testing. In 1994 and years following, Professors Steven Drizin, Richard Leo, and Saul Kassin conducted studies of the then 125* DNA cases where persons were convicted of crimes they couldn’t have committed. They found:

• 25% of overtu…