| Law & psychiatry: deception, coercion, and the limits of interrogation. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 19339313 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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This column discusses the recent case of U.S. v. Boskic to highlight issues related to voluntariness--in particular, the voluntariness of a confession. At a meeting with U.S. government agents, Boskic, a Croat from Bosnia living in the United States, confessed to involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The agents had deceived him about the meeting's purpose and did not disclose that they had a warrant for his arrest. The courts were asked to decide whether the confession was involuntary, and thus not admissible as evidence, on the basis of whether the deception was coercive. |
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Authors:
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Paul S Appelbaum |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Legal Cases |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) Volume: 60 ISSN: 1557-9700 ISO Abbreviation: Psychiatr Serv Publication Date: 2009 Apr |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-04-02 Completed Date: 2009-08-03 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9502838 Medline TA: Psychiatr Serv Country: United States |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 422-4 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. psa21@columbia.edu |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
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ethnology Coercion* Deception* Disclosure / legislation & jurisprudence Homicide / ethnology Humans Interviews as Topic* Psychiatry / legislation & jurisprudence* United States War Crimes / legislation & jurisprudence |
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Comment In:
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Psychiatr Serv. 2009 Jun;60(6):850; author reply 850
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