Sentences with phrase «false confessions not»

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Torture is punishing people you don't even know are guilty since they were arrested and incarcerated indefinitely without a trial Torture often gets false confessions.

In a conclusion similar to that of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report, he says that torture is an excellent way to extract a false confession but not to gain accurate intelligence.

I do not take this confession as mere or false modesty.

Soering has maintained that he is not guilty and gave a false confession, later recanted, to protect Ms. Haysom, counting on his father's status as a diplomat to shield him.

Many of the sub-genres on the margins of fiction — fables, parables, tales, chronicles — routinely come in miniature but potent receptacles, like the bottles of vodka and bourbon served on passenger planes, as do numerous other documents and oral presentations ripe for fictionalizing — job applications, confessions, courtroom speeches, love letters, advisory perorations («that thou can» st not be false to any man»).

This not only permits false confessions, she says, but also makes it difficult to detect prosecutorial misconduct.

This doesn't prevent false confessions but makes them easier to spot.

The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination.

Even more importantly, the court held that the confession itself was so obviously false — having been produced by the detectives «deceptive practices» — that the defendant could not be re-tried.

In many cases, a person was coerced into a false confession that resulted in not only a wrongful conviction, but also denied them justice through DNA testing.»

Also, the taping of a false confession does not catch the suspects whole life on camera, meaning that it would not capture events prior to the interrogation that might effect their mental health or current mental state.

A false confession, while it may close a case, is not justice.

To deny an innocent person compensation for their time spent suffering behind bars because of a crime that they never committed is unjust, false confession or not.

Decision: Court declined to adopt the position; expert regarding false confessions will not be permitted at trial levels.

Police misconduct may be to blame for many false confessions, but there are many factors that may lead a person to admit to a crime they did not...

Although it is not the leading cause of wrongful conviction, false confessions do happen as a result of confession contamination.

This is in stark contrast to the studies from Memorial University and in defiance of a global trend to ensure miscarriages of justice, through false confessions, do not occur.