The case of Romeo Phillion has received significant media attention in the past remains a newsworthy topic in present day. He had falsely confessed to the murder of Leopold Roy, which led to his wrongful conviction despite there being no supporting evidence to prove his guilt. This controversial case has received renewed media attention as of late because of Romeo Phillion suing the criminal justice system for 14 million dollars (Khetani, 2012). Romeo Phillion was identified as one of the suspects in the murder of fire fighter Leopold Roy after Roy’s wife gave a description of her husband's assailant, which Phillion matched. After detainment and questioning, Phillion was released without any charges. Five years after this event had occurred, …show more content…
The first type of false confession is the compliant false confession, this type of pressure is given when a suspect is put under pressure by the interrogator i.e.. A person who knows he is innocent, confesses to guilt. In the pre modern era individuals confessed to escape physical harm while in the modern era, psychological coercion leads to confessions. Kassin states that “ pages of legal history are filled with pages of coerced-compliant confessions” confessions of this sort are the most common type of false confessions. Suspects are pushed into confessing because the interrogator makes them feel like they have been caught and it is the end of the road, the only possible solution being to confess. Police techniques are made to get confessions out of individuals through methods of inducement, pressure, accusation, suggesting leniency and multiple tactics that may overburden a person’s cognitive capacities. The second type of false confession is persuaded false confession in which a person starts to doubt themselves and becomes persuaded that they may have committed the crime even though the person has no memory of doing so. The person may make up memories that don’t exist to give a detailed account of how they committed the crime in question. The person moves from making statements such as “ I probably did it” to “I did do it”. They occur mostly in high profile cases as a byproduct of extremely long and psychologically straining interrogation which makes the suspect believe that they could have committed the