False Confessions From 75 Persons With Intellectual Disability. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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False Confessions From 75 Persons With Intellectual Disability. Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesThe October issue of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities features a Perspectives article that follows up on a 2008 report and outlines the cases of 22 more individuals (bringing the total up to 75) who were coerced into confessing to major felonies that they did not commit (full text of available at no cost with member subscription to IDD).http://www.aaiddjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1352/1934-9556-49.5.365 "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." -Abraham Lincoln