When the Armstrong County District Attorney’s Office filed arson charges against a man for setting fire to a home and killing four people, part of the defense strategy was to prove to the jury that he had provided investigators with a false confession.

To do that, Frederick A. Robinson’s attorney hired an expert witness to testify about why his client’s mental illnesses made him more susceptible to making a false confession.

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