Scenes of a crime / a film by Grover Babcock & Blue Hadaegh.

Scenes of a crime (Documentary film : 2012)

Scenes of a crime / a film by Grover Babcock & Blue Hadaegh.

[Los Angeles, Calif.] : New Box Productions, [2012]

©2012

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Through one vivid example, Scenes of a Crime explores how modern - and currently legal - interrogation techniques (including lies, threats and psychological coercion) can produce confessions that may not be reliable. When Adrian Thomas walked into a Troy, NY police station about midnight in 2008, he didn't know he was being video-recorded. His four-month-old baby lay brain dead in a pediatric ICU. The doctors suspected abuse, and Thomas was the main suspect. And so began a psychological battle: the detectives repeatedly lied to - and threatened - Thomas, saying that if he told them "what happened," police would view it as an accident, without jail time. After dozens of denials (and many hours), Thomas confessed to throwing his son against a bed - just as detectives had demonstrated for him. Soon after, Thomas recanted, but then faced a huge task: proving his confession was false -- Rotten Tomatoes (citing film's Official Site)

"... how modern police interrogation tactics (including lies, threats and false evidence) place extraordinary pressures on suspects, and can encourage an innocent person to confess falsely."--Cover.
Includes the original theatrical version (88 minutes) and an edited shortened version (48 minutes).

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