confession in court

Remember all those strange confessions in court many years ago?

Prosecutors began playing the videotaped confession in court on Thursday.

Memory distrust disorder has been shown to cause false confessions in court cases.

He later disavowed the confession in court.

Cases concerning memory distrust syndrome have led to documented false confessions in court cases.

A signed waiver of Miranda warnings is the prosecutor's greatest asset when the defense tries to exclude a confession in court.

He said he considered the Rivera interview unnecessary, since the film showed Jesse Friedman's confession in court.

A New China News Agency report said Mr. Wu had signed a confession in court.

Under regular Indian law, a person can deny such confessions in court, but not under POTA.

This week a confession in court explaining how members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect killed the family has left Japan touched and saddened.

Langer had challenged Esmail's confession in court, alleging that he had been kicked, beaten, and deprived of sleep until he had agreed to sign it.

Raja is ultimately proved innocent and Chinnoy Seth is convicted after he blurts out a confession in court, thanks to Ravi.

But prosecutors and defense lawyers not involved in the case said that prosecutors should have at least obtained a more detailed confession in court from Ms. Abdela.

It also avoids the burden of proving a charge of treason, which requires either a confession in court or the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.

They were originally confirmed by Mr. Damjanovic in a confession of his own, but he retracted his confession in court, as did Miss Tomic hers.

From confessions in court and from interviews with former police officers and Interior Ministry officials, a picture has emerged of how the death squad started and how it worked.

In the previous two decades some 50% of GSS interrogations led to trials, and "the overwhelming majority of those tried were convicted on the basis of their confession in court."

In December 2009, Kasab retracted his confession in court, claiming he had come to Mumbai to act in Bollywood films and was arrested by the Mumbai police three days before the attacks.

But in her later confession in court, Ms. Abdela said she had knocked Mr. McMorrow's feet out from under him during the fight as Mr. Vasquez attacked him with a knife.

JUSTICE SCALIA - Now, do you think that a policeman who fails to Mirandize the suspect, obtains a confession without having Mirandized them and then introduces that confession in court, is subject to suit?

Jude Conroy, Dominic Coia's attorney, read part of his confession in court: "We just kept hitting and hitting him. . . . We took Sweeney's wallet and split up the money, and we partied beyond redemption."

In 1987, a government-appointed commission investigated the practices of the General Security Service and found that its agents routinely used physical force when interrogating Palestinian security suspects, and then just as routinely lied about it when the defendants challenged their confessions in court.

But his terse confession in court did little to explain the mystery of his actions: Why would a man with no criminal record, who came from a religious family and aspired to be a police officer, kill four helpless people and seriously wound another, all for a few thousand dollars?

Judge Rakoff makes clear in the documents that he has reached "no conclusions" about the agent's action; and he said earlier this month in ordering the government investigation that he believed that the prosecutor who cited the confession in court did so without realizing that it was false.

Mr. Van de Kamp has tried to turn the measure against Mr. Wilson by saying that one of its provisions, meant to make it easier to use confessions in court by scaling down rights to privacy, could be used to undermine the broad right to abortion under California law.