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Investigator Tip
Evaluating Admissions Against Self-Interest
January - February 2013
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We have a new look with more great information.
In this issue you will find valuable information regarding Evaluating Admissions Against Self-Interest. You will also see the Four Power Point Presentations that were included in our Winter Newsletter. The response was so positive we decided to include them here for those individuals that haven't had a chance to view them. Watch for more presentations in the future. Additionally, details are provided about our Forensic Interviewing for Attorneys Seminar and about the man who started our company, John E. Reid.
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Joe Buckley
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Evaluating Admissions Against Self-Interest
 It is not uncommon for suspects to make admissions against self-interest during an interview. They may acknowledge being in the area of the crime, having a motive to commit the crime, having a prior conviction, and many other statements that are unfavorable with respect to the suspect's innocence. During the recent presidential debates we heard the following two statements: "My opponent has plenty of legitimate issues to attack me on, but instead, he makes up fictitious issues." "To do things over, I should have worked harder to elicit bi-partisan support for the legislation." Both statements represent an admission against self-interest but one is more typical of a truthful statement, the other a deceptive statement. This web tip will offer guidelines to interpret admissions against self-interest. Continue reading here.
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Forensic Interviewing for Attorneys
 John E. Reid and Associates presents an adaptation of the Reid Technique of Interrogation for use by attorneys.
'Forensic Interviewing For Attorneys' is a one-day CLE program which teaches field tested principles of:
A) Detection of Deception Through Behavior Symptom Analysis
B) Non-coercive Elicitation of Information for Use During Suspect or Witness Interviews, Depositions, Jury Selection, and Trial Testimony
These principles are not taught within conventional law school curricula or CLE programs and are intended for use during questioning both of cooperative as well as adverse, hostile, and reluctant witnesses. Actual case studies and videos bring life to the lecture material; and the program is presented by a practicing attorney with more than 30 years of experience interrogating criminal suspects.
Agencies Participating in this Training Seminar include:
- State of Texas Attorney General's Office
- State of Virginia Attorney General's Office
- State of Illinois Attorney General's Office
- United States Department of State
- United States Department of Homeland Security
- United States Department of Transportation
- United States Department of Treasury - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
- United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas
- United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
- United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps
- State of Oklahoma Attorney General's Office
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About John E. Reid
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John Reid demonstrates conducting a polygraph on one of his first students Richard Arther
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John E. Reid was actively engaged in the professional specialty of criminal interrogation for almost 40 years, and he has left a legacy of exceedingly well qualified personnel to continue that activity and pass along the benefit of his skill through the medium of the Reid seminars. After obtaining a law degree from DePaul University, Reid joined the Chicago Police Department in 1936. In 1940 he accepted a position in the Chicago Police Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, where he was trained as a polygraph examiner. In 1947, Reid left the crime laboratory to form his own company, John E. Reid and Associates. In 1966, he co-authored the text Truth and Deception: The Polygraph Technique with Professor Fred E. Inbau of Northwestern University School of Law. The book became the leading text in the field. Earlier, in 1962, he co-authored another book, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, with Inbau. Following is an excerpt from a tribute written by Reid's longtime friend and colleague Fred Inbau: "John Reid was a friendly man, and also a kind and considerate one. This may seem odd to some persons who knew of his being a master interrogator of criminal offenders, including over three hundred killers, whose confessions resulted in severe punishments. But this is precisely one of the reasons for Reid's tremendous success. He could sit down alone with a brutal murderer, an arsonist or a child rapist and not display any hatred toward that person; indeed, he had none, regardless of his own professional appraisal of the offender. That lack of hatred, and an understanding of the frailty of human beings, would become apparent to the suspect, and it became easier for him to confess to Reid rather than to someone else exhibiting feelings of hate or disgust. He insisted that nothing should be said or done that might provoke a confession from an innocent person. At the end of forty years of dedicated effort, John E. Reid may rightly be acclaimed, in my opinion, as the most skillful interrogator of all times." |
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Four Power Point Presentations
The Use of Deception During an Interrogation (10:22) In this program we discuss whether or not an investigator can falsely tell a suspect that evidence exists which links him to the commission of the crime, and if he can, what safeguards must be followed. Click here for the program.
Interrogation Tactics and Techniques (10:33) In this program we discuss such issues as The Purpose of an Interrogation; Minimization; Pragmatic Implication and the Alternative Question; and, the "Accident Scenario." Click here for the program.
False Confession Issues (6:31)In this program we discuss the causes of false confessions and the safeguards that are built in to The Reid Technique to protect against this occurrence. Click here for the program.
Behavior Symptom Analysis: Assessing a Subject's Credibility (9:31)
In this presentation we discuss the issue of Misclassification and whether or not investigators can accurately evaluate a subject;s credibility based on the behavior symptoms that they display during an investigative interview.
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John E. Reid & Associates, Inc.
209 W. Jackson Blvd. Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(800) 255-5747
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