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Feeling sleepy? You might be at risk of falsely confessing to a crime you did not commit

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imageInnocence puts you at risk in an interrogation room.Interrogation image via www.shutterstock.com.

If you are one of the millions of people who have listened to the podcast “Serial” or watched Netflix’s series “Making a Murderer,” you may believe there are innocent people in prison.

But long before the cases of Adnan...

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