After a long interrogation, an innocent suspect comes to believe he has committed a crime despite having no memory of doing so. His interrogators have told him that he must have either "blacked out" during the commission of the crime or "repressed" his memory because the experience was so traumatic. His subsequent confession would be classified as an:

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The innocent suspect was coerced by his interrogators into confessing to a crime he did not commit. The interrogators used the tactics of suggesting he may have repressed his memory or blacked out. This makes the confession a coerced false confession. It is classified as authentic because the suspect genuinely believes he committed the crime, even though he did not.

After a Long Interrogation, an Innocent Suspect Comes to Believe