Potential Problems and Challenges of Confessions for the Criminal Justice

Potential problems and challenges of confessions for the criminal justice system include:

A) Police officers may use coercive psychological or physical methods to extract confessions.
B) The danger of a false confession resulting in a true confession is virtually nonexistent.
C) Wealthy and educated persons are more likely to talk to the police, thus benefitting from lesser charges of lighter sentences agreed to during plea bargaining.
D) It speeds up the adversarial process of the criminal justice system, expediting convictions.