Question

This method is named for a man who founded a law firm that paid two million dollars to Juan Rivera after DNA evidence caused the then-largest wrongful conviction lawsuit in US history in 2004. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this interrogation method. The posing of alternative questions on a presumption of guilt as part of this method has been criticized for causing a high rate of false confessions.
ANSWER: Reid technique [or Reid method; or Reid interrogation; accept John E. Reid]
[10e] Ava DuVernay’s documentary When They See Us blamed the Reid technique for the false confessions of these New York youths falsely convicted of raping Trisha Melli in 1989.
ANSWER: Central Park Five [or Exonerated Five]
[10m] The Reid technique emerged after the Wickersham Report, which was largely written by this man, discouraged “third degree” police torture. This Berkeley professor is called the “father of modern policing.”
ANSWER: August Vollmer
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y249.1792%0%0%

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Yale AChicago B010010
Cornell BChicago C010010
Yale BClaremont A010010
MIT AColumbia A010010
Columbia BHouston A010010
Cornell AChicago A0000
Penn State AGeorgia Tech B010010
WUSTL BIllinois A010010
Johns Hopkins ARutgers B010010
Indiana AMinnesota A010010
Florida BMinnesota B010010
Ohio State AGeorgia Tech A010010
Penn ASouth Carolina A010010
NYU APurdue A010010
Northwestern AToronto A0000
Harvard AUC Berkeley A010010
Imperial AVanderbilt A010010
Duke ABrown A010010
Virginia AMcGill A010010
North Carolina ATexas A010010
Rutgers AIowa State A010010
WUSTL AStanford A010010
Michigan AUC Berkeley B010010
Florida AMaryland A010010