VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to have a state agency create standards for police interrogations. The issue came to light in 2022 when then Attorney General Mark Herring ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. "The whole day it was like accusation after accusation," he says. "I kept ...

Ted Bradford was 22 years old when he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit following over nine and a half hours of police interrogation. “I thought just give them the statement, give them what they ...

House Bill 1062, sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, aims to make defendants' statements inadmissible in court if police use deceptive tactics during interrogations to get those statements.

In March of 1995, Chicago police arrested four Black teenagers from the neighborhood of Englewood and accused them of the rape and murder of a local sex worker. After hours of interrogation, police ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...