Inference−cases in which the authorities misconstrued the suspects' statements as admissions to the crimes. In these cases, the statements were real−only the inferences drawn from them were wrong.

Steven Paul Linscott: What he called a dream, the police called a confession−to a murder.

This chapter also includes the cases of Robert Lee Miller Jr., David Vasquez, Steven Paul Linscott, and Thomas M. Braun.

Photo: Center on Wrongful Convictions