Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Sullivan was falsely convicted in 1987 of the murder of Diane Sindall near Merseyside (Merseyside Police/Reuters) A man who ...

We've known that the public and juries downplay the risks of false confessions. New research shows that even legal ...

A Benton woman’s confession that she shot a man she was in a relationship with may be tossed out of court because the sheriff’s deputy did not properly notify her of her rights when she was arrested.

A man who was wrongly jailed for almost 40 years for a murder he didn’t commit has described being beaten by police officers and “bullied” into a false confession. Peter Sullivan was handed a life ...