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That's the big news coming out of Perugia today. A psychologist, Carlo Caltagirone, testified that, "She would have said anything to reduce the tension and stress and make the people questioning her happy," after more than 40 hours of questioning over a three-day period. False confessions have long been a controversial staple of American justice, most notoriously in the Central Park Jogger case, where four teenagers confessed to the brutal assault (and implicated a fifth) under pressure in 1989, only to have their convictions tossed out in 2002 when forensic evidence proved a completely different man acted alone to commit the crime. Whatever the case, Caltagirone is apparently the final witness in the case, meaning that sooner or later we can probably put this entire affair behind us.