For months, Gonzalez says, the police hounded her and called her a liar. She met with a police psychologist, who suggested the murder was so horrific that she simply blocked it out, and offered to work with her to help her remember. When Gonzalez protested that she didn't know one of her co-defendants, the psychologist, Wayne Price, told her, "You apparently don't want to."
"The odds are that at this time, it looks like you were in [there] but did in fact block it," Price said. "And if you can help you out by remembering, it will help you."
"Yeah," Gonzalez sighed.
Now, she says, she was being given 24 hours to decide, either plead to a lesser charge or go to trial for first-degree murder and face the possibility of the death penalty. She says the police kept telling her she would be the first woman to be executed in state history. The police deny threatening her, and her lawyer said he could not recall.
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アメリカのケースである。なぜ虚偽の自白をして、冤罪が生じるのかについて、例えば、自白しなければ、死刑、他の証拠はあるなどと、言われれば、嘘をついても命は惜しいから、虚偽の自白をしてしまう、ということだ。
日本でも同様に問題になっている。
講演「なぜ、無実の人が自白するのか？－アメリカの虚偽自白１２５事例が語る真実－」に参加して
http://s02.megalodon.jp/2009-0125-0318-50/www.news.janjan.jp/living/0812/0812173677/1.php
どうか、祖国、そして日本のケースなど具体的に研究してから、こうした件についてコメントしていただきたいものだ。
欧米人の一部には、そもそも、欧米は（なんでも）優越している、という偏見、からのみ一部事例をみて、祖国の制度とその運用を美化し、日本のそれを蔑視する傾向の人がいる。
