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Law & Psychiatry: Deception, Coercion, and the Limits of Interrogation

Dr. Appelbaum, who is editor of this column, is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. Send correspondence to him at New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 122, New York, NY 10032 (email: psa21{at}columbia.edu).

This column discusses the recent case of U.S. v. Boskic to highlight issues related to voluntariness—in particular, the voluntariness of a confession. At a meeting with U.S. government agents, Boskic, a Croat from Bosnia living in the United States, confessed to involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The agents had deceived him about the meeting's purpose and did not disclose that they had a warrant for his arrest. The courts were asked to decide whether the confession was involuntary, and thus not admissible as evidence, on the basis of whether the deception was coercive.

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