Saturday, September 1, 2018

Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey

My new book on the Brendan Dassey interrogation and conviction is available for pre-order, here.  It will be published by Rowman & Littlefield on November 8th.  In the meantime, read the "spotlight" feature about the book in Publishers Weekly, and subscribe to The Legal Watchdog or keep up with Knightly on Twitter for book reviews as they roll in before publication.  One of the world's foremost experts on police interrogations and false confessions has already weighed in on the book:

"Michael Cicchini has written a wonderfully descriptive and insightful book, the definitive account of the interrogations of Brendan Dassey and his coerced, contaminated and (almost certainly) false confessions. Cicchini masterfully describes the tricks of the interrogation trade, how police investigators have adapted to the theoretical Miranda protections and turned them to their advantage, and, more importantly, how and why police interrogation strategies . . . can and sometimes do lead to false confessions from the innocent. Anyone who watched the Netflix series Making a Murdererwith rapt fascination will want to read this book."

— Richard A. Leo, author, Police Interrogation and American Justice; Professor of Law and Psychology, University of San Francisco

1 comment:

  1. Further trick, applied by the Hungarian Police in Budapest in year 2010: they called themselves by phone, lying that my son 'S. Abel", used his gun in the street in a traffic conflict, than in the course of interrogation, they asked my son about his poems and literary works,than his thoughts have been considered as "facts" for incriminating him with preparation of a crime. Interrogation report was provided only formally with Miranda forms. Police's trick was later accepted by the court- without any legal consequences against the police.

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