Innocence Blog

False confessions conference in El Paso, Texas

Posted: September 12, 2007 4:00 pm

The University of Texas at El Paso will host a conference from September 27-29 bringing together experts on interrogations and false confessions. The conference’s keynote speaker will be Innocence Project client Jeff Deskovic, who was exonerated in 2006 after serving more than 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He was convicted as a teenager when he falsely confessed to the crime after several hours of interrogation and three polygraph tests.

Learn more about the conference and register to attend.

Read more about false confessions and proposed reforms to interrogation procedures to prevent wrongful convictions.

Read about other wrongful convictions caused, at least in part, by a false confession.