In a rare rejection of a bill recommended by a Senate committee, the Maryland Senate Friday defeated a bill that would have required police investigators to videotape interrogations of murder suspects ...

Illinois police will have to record more interrogations of criminal suspects under legislation Gov. Pat Quinn signed Monday that aims to prevent false confessions and wrongful convictions. The law ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to have a state agency create standards for police interrogations. The issue came to light in 2022 when then Attorney General Mark Herring ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. >> A former Troy man who confessed to killing his infant son and was later acquitted joined advocates Monday to call for strict videotaping of police interrogations to prevent defendants ...

Floyd Bledsoe, right, and his brother, Tom, left, are shown in Jefferson County District Court during Floyd's first-degree murder trial in April 2000. If detectives had recorded their interrogations ...

Defense attorneys should continue to argue that the People cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a stationhouse confession is voluntary when they fail to provide a complete recording of the ...