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Las Vegas detectives find a homeless man stabbed to death and a teenage girl confesses to the salacious crime. In NY, a high school girl is brutally raped and murdered and one of her classmates confesses. But what if both suspects are innocent? Who would confess to a crime that they didn't commit? In this, episode we'll look at two cases where convictions were reached almost entirely on the suspect's confession and explore whether the system got it...

Traces the history of the Miranda decision, discusses Earl Warren's work in writing the decision, recounts Nixon's political opposition, and examines Warren Burger's subsequent influence on the Supreme Court.

"Haig Bosmajian traces the history of the freedom not to speak from the Middle Ages and Inquisition to the Salem witchcraft trials and on to the twentieth century and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His history addresses the eighteenth-century Revolutionary War and demands for expressions of loyalty, the Civil War and Reconstruction loyalty oaths, and the expulsion of Jehovah's Witnesses from schools for refusing to salute the flag."--Jacket...

Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story. Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator and interrogator specializing in telling...

Explores how poems have been used as autobiographies throughout time.

Examination of the important works by such authors as Dostoevsky, Gide, Sartre, Golding and Bellow as examples of a unique literary genre, the confessional novel.