The court first announced this rule in McNabb v. United States (1943), in a decision that nullified two second-degree-murder convictions because they were based almost entirely on confessions made after the defendants were subjected to three days of police questioning in the absence of counsel.
Prosecutors alleged Russell planned to blow up power lines in the Everglades and possibly launch explosives into the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, based on a confession made by his roommate Devon Arthurs.
The cases were based on confessions.
Japan's judiciary boasts a 99% conviction rate, usually based on confessions, at times coerced.
Arrests are usually based on confessions, sometimes extracted by torture, rather than conventional detection.
Convictions here are more commonly based on confessions or the testimony of witnesses.
The four men Mr. Ryan pardoned outright had been condemned based on confessions elicited in a notorious Chicago police station that used torture to prod confessions from suspects.
Lisa Hajjar, author of Courting Conflict, says that most convictions in military courts are based on confessions.
That's true for all wrongful convictions, but especially for those based on confessions.
