Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Confession in U.S.S. Cole Case
The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.
Coerced Confessions and the Burden of Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Justice Berdon implored his colleagues not to place a confession on the same level as any other evidential ruling during the course of a trial.
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A Missouri woman was wrongfully convicted off a false confession. Her case could help free others
Sandra Hemme spent 43 years in a Missouri prison for a murder she did not commit. Some estimates suggest that a false ...
Accused 9/11 Mastermind Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence
Lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed have said for years that the confession was tainted by torture. Mr. Mohammed has now ...
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Judge to consider whether suppressed confession can be used in murder trial
Daviess Circuit Judge Joe Castlen heard arguments on Friday regarding the admissibility of a confession Jeremiah T. Byrd gave ...
Amanda Knox Was Falsely Charged With Murder. Italy Calls Her Coerced Confession 'Slander.'
"I can tell you that I have never been put in a position of doubting my own sanity like I was in the hands of those police ...
Murder confession letters lead to Pagan's murder trial delay in Marion County Circuit Court
The three letters purportedly containing a confession continue to frustrate Marion County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Sean ...
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Extra Judicial Confession Should Be Trustworthy To Establish Guilt: SC
Briefly stated, the Bench states in para 19 that, “The Trial Court took the view that the extra-judicial confession alleged to have been by the appellant – herein before (PW 2) could not be said to be ...