PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hickey, Peter Camejo
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Question 1: describe two cases of wrongful convictions that were based on false confessions. Case 1: the body of antwinica bridgeman was found on april 28, 1994 in a basement in chicago by michael barger and nevest coleman. The investigators spoke to one of bridgeman"s close friends, chester latham, who said that the day before bridgeman went missing, he noticed a hickey on her neck. When he asked her about it, she told him that the hickey was from a guy by the name of chip who had tried sexually assaulting her, but she escaped. The investigators later determined that chip was nevest coleman and arrested him. After a very long interrogation, coleman agreed to give a court-reported statement about who had abducted, raped and murdered bridgeman (eddie taylor and darryl fulton). Taylor and fulton were then arrested and interrogated. During the interrogation, they were both show the statement that was made by coleman.