True Confession?
July, 1999
On the PBS series Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren, playing detective Jane Tennison, walks into an interrogation room and turns on the recording machine; to her, it's second nature. Before she asks the first question, she takes the step necessary to memorialize the confession.Compare the English procedure with what we see on American television. In recent years interrogation has become a favorite dramatic device for cop shows such as NYPD Blue. The battle of wills has familiarized us with the fine po...
