Litigating Coerced Confessions: Utilizing the Science on False Confessions
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| Friday, November 7, 2025 |
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM |
| Redbird CD |
Overview
Lauren Gottesman, Senior Staff Attorney, Innocence Project
Details
This training aims to provide defense attorneys with new tools with which to litigate suppression of their clients’ custodial statements. The first segment of this two-part training will address strategies for strengthening suppression arguments by using relevant social science to highlight the psychological coercion involved in clients' interrogations and/or clients’ vulnerabilities to coercive interrogation tactics. The training will also include a brief discussion on the social science of Miranda comprehension, as well as tips for working with interrogation experts and proffering such expert testimony in both pre-trial hearings and at trial.
Speaker
Lauren Goettesman
Senior Staff Attorney
Innocence Project
Litigating Coerced Confessions: Utilizing the Science on False Confessions
Biography
Lauren Gottesman is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project’s Strategic Litigation Department, where she focuses primarily on issues involving police interrogation and coerced, false confessions. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, Lauren was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society’s Manhattan Criminal Defense Practice. During her last year at the Legal Aid Society, Lauren worked in their Decarceration Project, where she provided consultation, training, and direct advocacy regarding pre-trial detention issues. Before her work at the Legal Aid Society, Lauren clerked for two years for the Honorable James L. Dennis on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Louisiana.
