The Justice for Gerard Movement presents: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Topic: The Reid Technique and Wrongful Convictions,
The Robert Greathouse Story
Today we will discuss the wrongful conviction of Robert Greathouse. Robert is serving a life sentence due to a coerced confession...with the use of the Reid Technique.
According to the Innocence Project, 20% of all DNA based exoneration involve false confessions…. One of the main catalysts for a false confession is the Reid Technique. “Reid Technique” method of interrogation, which is one of the most widely used police techniques in the world. The Reid Technique trains officers to get a confession from a suspect they believe is guilty, no matter the cost.
The nine-step process focuses on a presumption of guilt and uses deceptive tactics to achieve an admission of that guilt. How can an interrogator possibly convince an innocent person that he or she is guilty?
Wouldn’t the suspect know whether or not he or she committed the crime?
-Persuaded false confessions tend to result from long and intense interrogations that may include:
-Repeated accusations that the suspect committed the crime
-Adamant discrediting of the suspect’s denials (for example, by saying that the denial is contradicted by known facts)
-Fabrications of evidence of guilt (for example, by saying that an eyewitness said that the suspect committed the crime, when no such eyewitness actually exists)
-Eventually, an offer to resolve the cognitive dissonance experienced by the suspect (for example, by saying, “it’s possible you repressed the memory of doing it”)
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