He simply ignored decades of decisions holding that a conviction based even in part on a coerced confession "cannot stand."

From the beginning, the men insisted they were innocent, saying the case had been based on a coerced confession and unreliable testimony by fellow inmates.

Or about the Supreme Court decision the other day that the use of a coerced confession can be harmless error in a trial.

Mr. Kessler is too experienced a reporter never to have heard of a coerced confession.

In a system that permitted (and even encouraged) the use of coerced confessions, the results were horrifying.

An organic farmer convicted of his parents' murder on the basis of a coerced confession.

Irish prisoners were convicted on coerced confessions or contrived evidence.

So why are these allegations of coerced confessions being raised in connection with the case?

It would exclude coerced confessions from that review, and place important new controls over Guantánamo operations.

They said the Court would continue to reverse convictions based mainly on coerced confessions.