False confession roundup

Several recent items related to false confessions deserve Grits readers' attention:

• Texas Tribune: Inmate's case adds to debate on recorded interrogations
• Chicago Sun-Times: False confessions not a relic of the past
• Charleston Gazette: Buffey case shows why W. Va. must record police interrogations 
• Boston Globe: A lesson from Central Park rape case: Police interrogations should be videotaped
• BBC: Japan Crime: Why do innocent people confess?

Recording interrogations is one of the reforms suggested by the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Conviction that the Texas Legislature still hasn't passed, but legislation has been filed again for the 83rd session.