The police hoped he would confess to a crime he didn't commit.

警方希望他能够坦白他所犯下的罪行，但是他什么都没做。

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Several experiments, for example, have focused on the use of false evidence, as when police pretend they have proof of a person’s guilt in order to encourage him to confess.

比如，有几个实验关注的是使用虚假证据，就像警察假装持有某人的犯罪证据以鼓动他自己认罪。

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According to the police commander, the suspects claimed that Hemmah was a known witch in the area and subjected her to severe torture, compelling her to confess to being a witch.

而据警方负责人称，这些嫌犯四处宣扬海玛系当地一知名“女巫”，并折磨其逼迫其承认此套说辞。

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As police monitored the conversation from another room, Baker tried for two hours to get Littleton to confess by insisting that the couple had no chance of reconciling unless he told her the "big secret" he had alluded to during their marriage.

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