AUSTIN – The effort to slash Texas' wrongful-conviction rate, which remains the highest in the nation, is leading to familiar territory for state lawmakers: a years-old fight over whether police ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) — An online vigilante group based in New York came to Massachusetts to help police catch a convicted sex offender and while they tout the success of their provocative approach, police ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...