Anatomy of a confession : the Debra Milke case
"Debra Milke spent twenty-three years on death row for murdering her four-year-old son based solely on a confession she never gave. The two men who killed Christopher Milke are still on death row. Neither testified against her, nor would they implicate her. Armando Saldate, the cop who took a true confession from one killer, could not break the other one. So, he made up a confession by the boy's mother. The trial judge hid damning impeachment evi...