We've held that back to check false confessions against real ones.

And yet it's clear that people do make false confessions.

There is no way to guess how many convictions in the past were based on false confessions.

They might say it was a false confession, got that way.

It's the kind of detail they can use to sort out the false confessions.

"They were trying to force me to make a false confession - which I couldn't do," he said.

Thus, the Soviet government was in his view the victim of false confessions.

Instances of false confession are not rare in criminal history.

Are we to believe that false confessions were made purely out love of the police?

It has now been 30 years since the first false public confession.