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 ...

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 ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

A suspect under police investigation for fraud overdosed on medication he was carrying while an investigator was temporarily ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. "The whole day it was like accusation after accusation," he says. "I kept ...

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 ...

In a small interview room at the Baltimore Police Homicide Unit, the man accused of killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere filled out a form acknowledging he understood constitutional ...

In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to ...

Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the... It's legal for police to use deception in ...