Hector Lopez is serving a 25 to life sentence for an arson in 1994 that killed two people. Mr. Lopez falsely confessed to the murder after 12 hours of interrogation.
According to the New York Times, “After about 12 hours in custody, Mr. Scarcella said that Mr. Lopez began to weep and said: ‘You guys got it right.’ In an appeal of the case, his attorney William Loeb, wrote that discrepancies between the confession and evidence suggested “the disturbing likelihood” that Mr. Scarcella had made up the confession.”