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Letter from NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer and NACDL affiliates' leadership to FBI Director James Comey regarding the FBI's policy on recording custodial interrogations, especially for those suspected of felony offenses.
Wrongful convictions stemming from false confessions and a growing field of false confession research have paved the way for greater public understanding of factors that lead to false confessions. The authors explore the underlying causes of false confessions and the importance of state-level reform.
NACDL supported legislation to require recording of certain custodial interrogations in Nevada.
"Focus: A Compendium of Law Relating to the Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations" by NACDL member Thomas P. Sullivan, a spring 2012 article for the American Judicature Society journal Judicature describing the project.
Support mandatory recording of custodial interrogations and preserve the integrity of the criminal justice system. The increasing number of wrongful convictions based on coerced or false confessions require immediate action.
Suggested responses to arguments against videotaping interrogations.
Requiring videotaped interrogations has broad support, including from the law enforcement community, judges, media, academics, public officials and defense attorneys. This document includes statements from these actors in favor of videotaped interrogations.
Department of Justice memo outlining new department policy concerning electronic recording of statements, going into effect July 11, 2014.
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have statutory, judicial, or self-imposed requirements that police questioning of arrested persons held in custody must be electronically recorded.
