According to the Text, Which Statement About Research on Confessions

question 4

Multiple Choice

According to the text, which statement about research on confessions is FALSE?

• A) In the United States police reported in one study that 68 percent of interrogated suspects make incriminating statements.
• B) One study indicated that even though jurors in a mock trial reported disregarding coerced confessions, they still found the mock defendant guilty.
• C) In one study of DNA-exonerated defendants, even though they falsely confessed, then pled not guilty, jurors still convicted them.
• D) Researchers in Quebec found that women were more likely to believe that a false confession was coerced by the police than men were.

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