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Following Thursday's proceedings, which lasted about 15 minutes, defense attorney Karen Agnifilo told reporters that her team had originally intended to question NYPD Det. Oscar Diaz, but the prosecution decided not to put him on the stand on short notice. The decision came after a rocky afternoon of testimony on Tuesday in which the prosecution abruptly decided to withdraw statements that Mangione made to NYPD investigators under interrogation shortly after his Dec. 9, 2024 arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there's a reason to think the confession was involuntary, and even when other evidence like DNA contradicts the story in the confession. Throughout the last four or five decades, scientists have learned a lot about the psychology of interrogations and confessions.