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Laura Nirider is an attorney representing Brendan Dassey. If that name sounds familiar, his confession and trial was featured in the hit Netflix documentary series, "Making a Murderer." Nirider says confessions hold so much weight in criminal trials that even when evidence proves them false, they lead to convictions 80 percent of the time. 

Nirider is co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth at Northwestern University. She spoke February 22, 2016 in Minneapolis at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

Laura Nirider is an attorney representing Brendan Dassey, whose confession and trial was featured in the hit Netflix documentary series, "Making a Murderer." Nirider says confessions hold so much weight in criminal trials that even when evidence proves them false, they lead to convictions 80 percent of the time.

Laura Nirider on 'Making a Murderer'

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