In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to ...
The victim's family alleged that DOC staff was aware of his mental illness and physical condition. Credit: Illustration/ rawpixel public domain In 1989, at age 43, Richard LaPointe was wrongfully ...
The days of physical pain and threats are over in modern day criminal investigations. Interview and interrogation is a critical component in criminal investigations and subsequent prosecutions and has ...
Waterboarding? Hasn’t been used in years. Walling, stress positions, abdominal slaps? They’re no longer allowed. But if the CIA can no longer use the interrogation techniques described in chilling ...
Some of the most vehement critics of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” are standing behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), despite accusations that she didn’t speak up forcefully ...
Top officials debated how they could present to an investigation techniques they knew were deeply controversial ...
Members of a Defense Department investigative task force were told not to participate in aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in ...