“I am going to say it folks: people who have no idea, who weren’t there, who weren’t involved, do not confess, especially to murder. It goes against everything you have ever known and all your common sense. No one confesses to a murder that they did not commit; no one.” As a criminal defense lawyer, I heard many prosecutors make that same argument to juries. And it’s kind of hard to argue with that logic. Yet, we know that people do, in fact, confess to crimes they never committed.
