1.   In the course of the trial one Glazkov made a false confession which he later retracted.

2.   The officers were accused of extracting false confessions from some of the prisoners.

3.   Lord McLuskey says they manufacture false confessions, plant evidence and commit perjury.

4.   Also, he had opportunities to concoct big lies, like false confessions by the defendants, and did not take them, he said.

5.   Artt and Kirby said that Belfast detectives beat them into making false confessions.

6.   Defense lawyers say the police tricked him into agreeing to a false confession that was used to convict him and the others.

7.   Ed Walsh, the district attorney who was the chief prosecutor, said he simply refused to believe that the sheriff coerced a false confession.

8.   False confessions can be curbed by requiring that all interrogations be recorded on tape, as is already done in Minnesota, Alaska, Ireland and Britain.

9.   Godschalk later said he had given a false confession because the detective had threatened him and provided inside information to make his confession appear more credible, Rudovsky said.