Reid technique - 2023 ACF Nationals

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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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	9.17	92%	0%	0%

Data


Yale A	Chicago B	10	10
Cornell B	Chicago C	10	10
Yale B	Claremont A	10	10
MIT A	Columbia A	10	10
Columbia B	Houston A	10	10
Cornell A	Chicago A	0	0
Penn State A	Georgia Tech B	10	10
WUSTL B	Illinois A	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers B	10	10
Indiana A	Minnesota A	10	10
Florida B	Minnesota B	10	10
Ohio State A	Georgia Tech A	10	10
Penn A	South Carolina A	10	10
NYU A	Purdue A	10	10
Northwestern A	Toronto A	0	0
Harvard A	UC Berkeley A	10	10
Imperial A	Vanderbilt A	10	10
Duke A	Brown A	10	10
Virginia A	McGill A	10	10
North Carolina A	Texas A	10	10
Rutgers A	Iowa State A	10	10
WUSTL A	Stanford A	10	10
Michigan A	UC Berkeley B	10	10
Florida A	Maryland A	10	10