Joseph P. Buckley

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Joseph P. Buckley is the president of John E. Reid and Associates, an American company based in Chicago, which trains law enforcement and others in The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation, which is focused on obtaining confessions.

After a B.A. degree in English from Catholic Loyola University in 1971, Buckley met John E. Reid socially, and joined his company in 1971. In 1973, Buckley was awarded an MS in "Detection of Deception" by Reid College. [1] The college was a short-lived state-approved professional school, based on a six-month polygraph licensing course in Illinois set up by Reid. [2]

In 1982, Buckley succeeded Reid as president. [3] [4] Buckley assisted with the third edition of 'Criminal Confessions and Interrogations', known as the Reid Manual. He became the lead author for the fourth and fifth editions, along with Brian Jayne. [5]

Buckley has trained people in the US government, including the US Office of Research Integrity and the US Food and Drug Administration. [6] He also marketed the techniques to schools and led training courses for educators. [7]

His office was directly involved in the original interrogations of Juan Riviera in 1992, eventually resulting in their largest lawsuit settlement as of 2015. [8] Buckley was personally involved in the case against Brendan Dassey in 2007. [9] In response to criticism from Dassey's trial lawyer Mark Fremgen, as shown in a popular documentary, Making a Murderer, Buckley denied that the techniques necessarily cause false confessions especially by youth. [10] Buckley has been accused by professor Steven Drizin, Dassey's postconviction attorney, of not accepting how much the Reid techniques induce false confessions, but Buckley has pointed to examples where he supported clemency, such as the case of Robert Paul Davis. [11]

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