Never underestimate the power of a Christmas carol, especially when the song is “White Christmas”. Armed with a rifle, a suspect held off a swat team for ten hours in East Vincent, Pennsylvania but agreed to give up after an officer sang the song to him. The suspect, Nathaniel Lewis,

False confessions induced by interrogators are among the leading causes of wrongful imprisonment in the United States, research shows. During hours-long, emotionally stressful interrogations, authorities have coerced, intentionally or not, innocent people to admit to crimes. The problem in many cases is the adversarial nature of the legal system.  The presumption is