Pressure can force people to do crazy things. When innocent people plead guilty or make incriminating statements, the main reason is because they feel guilty or know more inside information. There have been many cases where an innocent person was secretly blackmailed or forced to plead guilty. The mental state of the confessor is also vital to knowing the truth. Confessions of minors are usually unreliable because most of the time they do not fully understand the situation and they can also be manipulated more easily than an adult could. Mentally capable adults confess when they are innocent for a variety of reasons, from fatigue from excessive questioning, from a belief that they might be released if they confessed, or from feeling truly guilty. Forced confessions are less common, but there have been cases. False confessions pose a danger in trials and can even result in a cruel sentence for an innocent person. There have been many cases of false confessions. One of these is the “Salem witch trail”. Many people have confessed falsely for various reasons. Tituba was the f...