all right. some type of clothing device. snead knows the weapon was really a metal rod. i hit her two times. because they said if it was if i didn t do it i would be wait a minute, i ve got somebody else clipping her, robert. i ve got someone else doing the act. robert has it wrong. hit her in the head with this mackie thing. jessica already confessed that rocky club ann charles. you did another act. you know what s actors. and we know that s the thing that has it. as yours. what would that be? i m not gonna tell you. so, again, robert starts guessing. i didn t report nobody. no. no. i m not saying. that is that we are trying no. i didn t kill the baby. no, i m not saying that. i m not saying that you raped anybody. i didn t cut nobody. i did is it nobody. i did issue you say you shot nobody. robert, island
that would prevent us from other detecting anything ever again you would never solve a crime anymore? we would never solve a crime anymore it would tie our hands. detection rates in respect to homicide in the uk are very high. they are up in the 90% mark. and, along the way, said the detective, confessions of hallmark case servings in the u.s. became much less important here in britain. we would not prosecute someone solely on a confession. so somebody did make a confession, we would try to corroborate what they say but isn t a confession the strongest evidence you can get? not always. what is wrong with it? what confessions tended to do, if they shape a
everything you ve told me is true, correct? true. everything that you have done, and been part of it is true, correct? true. later that day, officer snead allowed robert to call his mother. i said robert, what did you say? he said, since they wanted to hear that, i told them, fine. what did it feel like in here, when you heard that from your son? i felt like i was going to have a heart attack and die. around the neighborhood, people who had known robert for years could not believe it. he was always polite, amicable and, but i knew robert was a follower. and, i still could not believe that robert was involved. and yet, the boys said it himself. why would he confessed to something he did not do? roberts mother could not afford an attorney, so the state appointed one for him. steve rosenfield.
case. but the officer then goes on to say, i can t lie to you about this, robert. so in fact, he s lying about lying. officer snead tells robert he s faces what snead calls the ultimate punishment. he also says, falsely, that he has been talking to robert s mother on the phone. i told your mom that i would sit here and try to keep you from the most ultimate punishment you can get. and i m trying to do that. and you re not helping me to help you. i can t do no more. what s going on in there? there you see a police officer suggesting to rubber that he s going to face death. you also see the officer very cleverly using roberts relationship with his mother. and that s when roberts resolved begins to weaken. what can i say that i did this to get me out of? this just before 7 am, five hours in, robert begins to bargain. how many years is it gonna be, if i was just on the porch? how many years is
confirmation bias, people look for supporting evidence just to support what is being said, it because the confession exists. so we asked the detective to watch with us, robert davis s interrogation. and what this guy s problem was, he was arrested last what they are saying is we gospel believe the people who are arrested first, so you just need to confirm what we know. and that s clearly not a good approach to investigating. you obviously think that i m lying, i swear to you that i m not. i m ready to go to sleep. so take me, because i did not do nothing. the time of day of the interview, at the length of the interview, the use of halfway through the interview, the clear requests for medication, sleep at various points in the interview, they are all red flags when you look at the whole thing as you did, you sat back and thought afterwards the lifeline of any account is reliability. and the way that this is done, is you can t vouch for reliability we had asked for