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People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
(www.psychologicalscience.org)
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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The researchers are hoping the state will read this paper and go "Wait, we can do that? That's awful! It hinders our pursuit of real justice and hampers our ability to lock up the actual criminals! We should change!"
What they're actually going to say is "Wait, we can do that? FUCK yeah! Let's get that 100% conviction rate, boys!"