The phrase "a confession based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the foundation or reasoning behind a confession, often in legal or narrative contexts.
Example: "The detective was intrigued by a confession based on the suspect's detailed knowledge of the crime scene."
Alternatives: "a confession derived from" or "a confession grounded in".
Similarly, when someone says 'I believe that p', this is a confession based on what he thinks that may be the case, i.e. p. Although information about p is relevant for this utterance, he is expressing his belief, i.e. he makes clear what he thinks is credible and is, perhaps, important for him.
By Pauline Kael The New Yorker, December 12 , 1970P. 172 Review of the Costa-Gavras film "The Confession", based on the Slansky trial of 1952 in Czechoslovakia.
Zwinglianism is the Reformed confession based on the Second Helvetic Confession promulgated by Zwingli's successor Heinrich Bullinger in the 1560s.
It also appears that a forensic scientist, Pamela Fish, may have given false testimony and that detectives coerced confessions based on a profiler's hypothesis.
Instead, judges may decide whether to accept confessions based on whether the statements were coerced.
By the United Nations' definition, torture is any kind of severe physical or mental pain or suffering intentionally inflicted on a person for punishment, to obtain a confession, or based on discrimination.
"Funny that it's only after 10 years things seem to fit together," Isabel muses, embarking on her "Confessions," a memoir based on the case file of Muriel Axon.
In a 1986 decision, the justices approved a murder conviction based on a confession, even though the police did not tell the suspect that his sister had arranged for a lawyer.
Thus, police failure to arraign an arrestee in a reasonably prompt manner will not automatically negate a federal conviction based on a confession.
What, though, did VW actually say beyond the confession that "based on present knowledge" 800,000 vehicles have been affected?
