No, you can't really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions

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2. "Kinesic interrogation" aka "biased interpretation of body language" has been used for decades

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In the early 2000's a cop (former) friend gave me a book on the subject that had been part of his training five years before.

He shared one of the key elements of his training that I recalled during John Oliver's piece on wrongful conviction: my (former) friend stated confidently "no one gives a false confession."

If you go in with that attitude, paired with the belief that you can magically divine truth or falsehood from the way someone positions their knees, of course you're going to harass a suspect until they crack. Because there's no false confession, right?