11.   His lawyers are claiming the report planted the information that eventually would go into his false confession.

12.   His false confession got him a life term.

13.   Of all the causes of wrongful conviction, the false confession has to rank among the most astounding.

14.   Psychologists have found that a few personality types are more likely to make false confessions.

15.   Springsteen, whose wife was in court after flying in from their home in West Virginia, claims police pressured him into a false confession.

16.   Testimony from psychiatrists suggesting that mental illness prompted Lucas to make a false confession also had little or no effect on the jury.

17.   The case is the latest in a string in which suspects have said Phoenix-area law-enforcement agencies extracted false confessions.

18.   The Illinois commission also suggested videotaping all statements, to minimize coercion, since about one in five wrongful convictions appear to rest on false confessions.

19.   The urge is so strong that false confessions have long troubled the criminal justice system, as the court noted in the Miranda decision.

20.   They maintain they are innocent of any crimes, and insist they are the victims of fabricated evidence, vengeful police or false confessions coerced by torture.