To the public unfamiliar with the realities of the criminal justice system, a confession is sure proof that a person is guilty. That's seldom the truth of the matter. Almost all confessions are coerced by the cops. The police typically beat, intimidate, terrify and/or threaten suspects into giving false confessions. This is especially true where the cops have no case and even their lies (cops lie as a matter of everyday business) won't assure a conviction. They tell the suspect/victim that if he confesses, "it will go easy on him." The rule is simple: never even believe a cop and never even confess to anything. Make them prove every detail. Bruce Godschalk of Norristown confessed to two rapes. It was the old story, the cops coerced him. In reality, he hadn't touched the women. Later, after getting legal advice, he tried to recant his confession, but it was allowed to stand. For fifteen years Mister Godschalk languished in prison trying to maintain his innocence and to explain that the cops had forced him to falsely confess. At last attorneys succeeded in getting DNA tests of the evidence. Everything was double tested. All the tests proved that the confessed rapist hadn't committed the crime. Both women had been raped by the same person, but that person wasn't Bruce Godschalk. It was someone else. About one in every seven persons in prison is there for crimes he didn't actually commit. Nobody knows how many hundreds of persons in Pennsylvania prisons would be proven innocent if DNA testing were available and used. Prosecutors love DNA evidence where it proves guilt, but they fight it where it proves innocence. The criminal justice system in Pennsylvania is rigged.