Question

After a long interrogation, an innocent suspect comes to believe he has committed a crime despite having no memory of doing so. his interrogators have told him that he must have either "blacked out" during the commission of the crime or "repressed" his memory because the experience was so traumatic. his subsequent confession would be classified as an: instrumental-voluntary false confession. authentic-voluntary false confession. instrumental-coerced false confession. authentic-coerced false confession.

Answer 1

The correct answer is authentic-coerced false confession

This is a confession that results from interrogating the suspect for so long to the extent that they begin to think that they are at fault. This results to the suspect confessing to the crime despite being innocent